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Underdogs - Keegan Hirst, Batley and a Year in the Life of a Rugby League Town (Paperback)
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Underdogs - Keegan Hirst, Batley and a Year in the Life of a Rugby League Town (Paperback)
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**Shortlisted for the 2018 General Outstanding Sports Book of the
Year** One of the founder members in 1895 of what became the Rugby
League, Batley was once a thriving centre of commerce, one of the
bustling mill towns in the Heavy Woollen District of West
Yorkshire. More than 120 years on, times have changed, even if the
town's Victorian buildings remain, but one constant is the
importance of the club as the centre of the community. And in 2016,
the Batley Bulldogs brought more than their fair share of pride to
the town. They were Underdogs, but gave their professional Super
League rivals a run for their money in a season that surpassed all
expectations. Given unprecedented access to the team - players,
staff and fans - Tony Hannan charts a fascinating year in the life
of a lower-league club, of labourers spilling blood and guts on to
Batley's notorious sloping pitch before getting bruised bodies up
for work on a Monday morning, of hand-to-mouth existence at the
unglamorous and gritty end of British sport. And at their centre is
the Bulldogs captain Keegan Hirst, the first rugby league player to
come out as gay, and inspirational coach John Kear, just two men in
the most colourful cast of characters. It was also a year when the
town was plunged into tragedy by the brutal murder of local MP Jo
Cox, a great supporter of the club. Underdogs is more than just a
book about Batley though. It is the story of northern working-class
culture, past and present, and a report from the front-line of a
society struggling to find its identity in a changing world.
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