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Once Were Lions - The Players' Stories: Inside the World's Most Famous Rugby Team (Hardcover)
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Once Were Lions - The Players' Stories: Inside the World's Most Famous Rugby Team (Hardcover)
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Drawing on first hand interviews from more than 75 British Lions
tourists since the golden age of the fifties, this book captures
what it means to be a British Lions rugby player - the historic
victories, the glorious failures and the stories surrounding the
icons of rugby such as Edwards, Bennett, Hastings, Guscott,
Dallaglio and Johnson. The British and Irish Lions are one of the
most famous and recognised teams in world rugby. Every four years,
the Lions - selected from the national sides of England, Wales,
Scotland and Ireland - head to the southern hemisphere to do battle
with either New Zealand, Australia or South Africa. In Once Were
Lions, acclaimed sportswriter Jeff Connor interviews a host of
players - from the oldest surviving Lions from the 1946 tour and
the icons of the game to those who have become mere footnotes in
history - and draws out the compelling human stories from each Test
series. It's a book that captures the ups and downs of tour life:
the pride of being a Lion, the numerous personal feuds and the many
humorous anecdotes, taking in the historic wins and the ignoble
losses. Many Lions had their lives enriched by having worn the
famous red jersey; an equal number had their lives changed
irrevocably in the opposite direction. Full of previously
unchronicled stories - Des O'Brien was away from home for nine
months on the 1946 tour which almost cost him his marriage; while
in 1966 one well-known English winger 'went off tour' with a woman
he met in a bar and reappeared only for the last two matches - the
book concludes with the disastrous 2005 New Zealand tour and
trenchant opinions from the players on the controversial Clive
Woodward. Thanks to a host of amusing and heart-breaking anecdotes
about life with the Lions, the book offers a fascinating insight
into how touring, sport and life has changed in the last 60 years.
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