Rugby's strangest matches: extraordinary but true stories from over a century of rugby 9781911042297, 9781910232330, 1910232335
From bestselling author John Griffiths. Jam packed with over one hundred years of strange rugby history! The perfect gif
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English Year 2016;2007
Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction
1871 Dr Almond's words of wisdom
1877 The first fifteens
1878 And there was light
1884 The long disputed try
1887 A heroic act
1889 A Maori protest
1893 When the crowd didn't know the score
1903 A family affair
1903 A unique Scottish treble
1905 Disbelieving sport editors
1905 The referee performs a solo
1906 Selectors' cock-up
1910 Joe's New Year cap
1913 A game of four quarters
1920 Where's my shirt?
1923 Two freak scores
1924 Three pairs of brothers
1924 Bronze medal ... just for turning up
1925 Moment that silenced Twickenham. 1927 Back to square one1931 French outcasts
1932 The over-inflated ball
1935 All Blacks beaten by schoolboys
1936 Fire brigade hoses crowd
1946 Passport scam
1949 The All Black day
1950 Army forgets its drill
1951 Murrayfield massacre
1953 Did the touch judge help Wales?
1955 The overbearing captain
1957 Entire Welsh XV ordered off
1958 Please can we have our ball back?
1959 Game that started a debate
1961 Role reversal
1961 Mother's Day
1963 Arctic match
1963 One hundred and eleven lineouts
1965 Hancock's half minute
1965 Refereeing history
1966 The battle of Waldron's ear. 1967 The unbelievable debut1967 Referee sent off
1968 The drop that never was
1968 A replacement's hat-trick
1969 Injured running out
1969 The game with a punch
1969 Building site rugby
1970 Kick his chauffeur while you're at it
1971 The greatest conversion since St Paul's
1972 English rugby's first Cup Final
1975 Up your jumper
1976 The referee who forgot the laws
1980 The printer's nightmare
1982 The most famous streaker of them all
1988 A very peculiar sending off
1991 An abandoned international
1991 The World Cup's defining moment
1994 Try from the end of the world. 1995 Lights go out in Port Elizabeth1996 Cross code challenge
1997 England's worst half-hour
1999 Fastest Test try
1999 Upset of the millennium
2000 European fiasco
2000 A helping hand
2001 Gloucester's drop of luck
2003 Our defence is their enemy
2007 Three of a kind
2007 Timed out
2007 A game played by youths and watched by hooligans
2009 Bloodgate
2007 Penalty Shoot-out
2007 Scrape to Victory
2007 Best Supporting Act
2007 A Brush with the Law
2007 Collector's Piece
Copyright.
Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction
1871 Dr Almond's words of wisdom
1877 The first fifteens
1878 And there was light
1884 The long disputed try
1887 A heroic act
1889 A Maori protest
1893 When the crowd didn't know the score
1903 A family affair
1903 A unique Scottish treble
1905 Disbelieving sport editors
1905 The referee performs a solo
1906 Selectors' cock-up
1910 Joe's New Year cap
1913 A game of four quarters
1920 Where's my shirt?
1923 Two freak scores
1924 Three pairs of brothers
1924 Bronze medal ... just for turning up
1925 Moment that silenced Twickenham. 1927 Back to square one1931 French outcasts
1932 The over-inflated ball
1935 All Blacks beaten by schoolboys
1936 Fire brigade hoses crowd
1946 Passport scam
1949 The All Black day
1950 Army forgets its drill
1951 Murrayfield massacre
1953 Did the touch judge help Wales?
1955 The overbearing captain
1957 Entire Welsh XV ordered off
1958 Please can we have our ball back?
1959 Game that started a debate
1961 Role reversal
1961 Mother's Day
1963 Arctic match
1963 One hundred and eleven lineouts
1965 Hancock's half minute
1965 Refereeing history
1966 The battle of Waldron's ear. 1967 The unbelievable debut1967 Referee sent off
1968 The drop that never was
1968 A replacement's hat-trick
1969 Injured running out
1969 The game with a punch
1969 Building site rugby
1970 Kick his chauffeur while you're at it
1971 The greatest conversion since St Paul's
1972 English rugby's first Cup Final
1975 Up your jumper
1976 The referee who forgot the laws
1980 The printer's nightmare
1982 The most famous streaker of them all
1988 A very peculiar sending off
1991 An abandoned international
1991 The World Cup's defining moment
1994 Try from the end of the world. 1995 Lights go out in Port Elizabeth1996 Cross code challenge
1997 England's worst half-hour
1999 Fastest Test try
1999 Upset of the millennium
2000 European fiasco
2000 A helping hand
2001 Gloucester's drop of luck
2003 Our defence is their enemy
2007 Three of a kind
2007 Timed out
2007 A game played by youths and watched by hooligans
2009 Bloodgate
2007 Penalty Shoot-out
2007 Scrape to Victory
2007 Best Supporting Act
2007 A Brush with the Law
2007 Collector's Piece
Copyright.
