Covering more than a century of rugby union football, IT'S NOT JUST A BLOODY GAME! brings together hundreds of the best and most colourful stories about the sport, from the days of early club rugby to the hotly contested international battles of today, including the regional competitions and the World Cup. With a foreword by Mark Ella and insights from renowned rugby writer Greg Growden, IT'S NOT JUST A BLOODY GAME is a collection of timeless rugby stories in which the stars, players and commentators reveal the myths and inside stories from the rich history, of this popular international game.
Greg Growden started writing about rugby union in 1981, and since 1987 has been the chief rugby correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald. This is his eighth book. His biography of 'Chuck' Fleetwood-Smith, A Wayward Genius, was described by The Guardian's Frank Keating as being among the 100 best sporting books of the twentieth century
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