What is the state of rugby? Is the game on the brink of expansion?
Or is it on the brink of implosion? No game has undergone so
traumatic a transformation since the turn of the century. The last
of the major sports to embrace professionalism, rugby was propelled
on a trajectory that has twisted its cumbersome frame to the limit
in a drama compelling and appalling to behold. After a hundred
years defying the future, rugby now shudders with the turmoil of
its sudden leap into the modern world, attaining heights hitherto
undreamed of, even as the strains - financial, political, social
and medical - threaten to tear it apart. Unholy Union is a
fascinating and in-depth analysis of the sport, examining the
journey so far and speculating on where it will go next. It is
irreverent and provocative, asking uncomfortable questions of
rugby, but imbued throughout with affection for a game that
integrates all human life, as beautiful as it is ugly, as in love
with itself as it is terrified. Sports enter periods that make or
break them. Rugby is in one now . . .
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