'The Bounce of the Century' they called it. A ball kicked across
Cardiff Arms Park in the dying minutes of a match between two of
international rugby's fiercest rivals. The world's two greatest
wingers waited as it bounced towards them, knowing that whoever
caught the ball would score and win the match for his country.
Dragons and All Blacks tells what happened when Wales played New
Zealand in 1953. The story is written from contemporary accounts
and the memories of the men who played that day, including Bob
Stuart and Bleddyn Williams, for many of whom the match was the
highlight of a career. The book retells the stories of the two
teams and the men who played for them, and charts the events of
their lives: how they got to that meeting point in Cardiff in
December 1953 and what has happened to them in the half-century
since. Dragons and All Blacks examines the remarkable relationship
between two countries on opposite sides of the world, brought
together by a mutual passion for rugby with few parallels
elsewhere. It shows how their rivalry has developed over a century
- from perhaps the greatest of all rugby matches in 1905 to the
single-point thriller of 2004 - and looks to its future in the
aftermath of the 2005 Welsh Grand Slam and Lions tour of New
Zealand.
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