Rugby football

  • Throwing the book

    £25.00

    There aren’t many people who can say they’ve been the 31st man on the pitch during a World Cup humdinger, or a Grand Slam decider, or a Premiership or European Cup final; listened to the sobs of a 20-stone prop as he tries to belt out his national anthem; heard bones crunch after the mightiest of hits; or been yards away from the greatest players of the last 20 years, doing almost impossible things with a rugby ball. Especially when you’re a working-class lad from the Forest of Dean, wondering how you ever got there. ‘Throwing the Book’ will be the definitive account of what it is to be a rugby referee.

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  • The Flying Prince

    £10.99

    On a still March day in 1940, a sporting hero perished. He had lived fast and died young, as a flyer on the rugby field and as a pilot in the Royal Air Force, killed in the service of his adopted country. He was a refugee from a noble family in Russia who fought to be accepted as, and live the life of, a quintessential Englishman. His story is unmatched in sporting history for its agony and ecstasy, dislocation and vindication, love and loss. This is the first biography, and the complete story, of Prince Alexander Sergeevich Obolensky.

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  • The Flying Prince

    £20.00

    On a still March day in 1940, a sporting hero perished. He had lived fast and died young, as a flyer on the rugby field and as a pilot in the Royal Air Force, killed in the service of his adopted country. He was a refugee from a noble family in Russia who fought to be accepted as, and live the life of, a quintessential Englishman. His story is unmatched in sporting history for its agony and ecstasy, dislocation and vindication, love and loss. This is the first biography, and the complete story, of Prince Alexander Sergeevich Obolensky.

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  • What a Flanker

    £20.00

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

    ‘Hilarious, and straight talking but also articulate and insightful – I am just hugely fond of this guy’
    -Eddie Jones

    ‘James Haskell: what a flanker, what a book’
    -Rugby World

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  • Eddie Jones

    £18.99

    Since Eddie Jones began coaching England’s rugby team in November 2015, they’ve won 24 of their 28 matches. The side that limped out of the last World Cup has been thoroughly revitalised. But who is the enigmatic figure responsible for this change of fortune? From his school days playing alongside the legendary Ella brothers to his masterminding of Japan’s jaw-dropping victory over South Africa in the 2015 World Cup, Eddie Jones has always been a polarising figure, known for his punishing work ethic. Veteran rugby writer Mike Colman brings a rare level of insight to his biography of this singular man.

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  • The Random History of Rugby

    £7.99

    This is the story of rugby as never been told before: a jinking, weaving compilation of surreal match reports, spoof correspondence and quirky cartoons.

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  • Origial Rules Of Rugby

    £5.99

    This book investigates the origins of the game of rugby and reproduces for the first time in a single book both the first rules of the game, drawn up at Rugby School in 1845 and the first rules of the Rugby Football Union, published in 1871.

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