The Grudge
two nations, one match, no holds barred
$33.15
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
7 April 2020
Summary
Murrayfield, the Calcutta Cup, March 1990. England vs. Scotland - winner-takes-all for the Five Nations Grand Slam, the biggest prize in northern hemisphere rugby. Will Carling’s England are the very embodiment of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain - snarling, brutish and all-conquering. Scotland are the underdogs - second-class citizens from a land that’s become the testing ground for the most unpopular tax in living memory: Thatcher’s Poll Tax. In Edinburgh, nationalism is rising high - what ha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781909715837 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1909715832 |
| Author: | Tom English |
| Publisher: | Birlinn General |
| Imprint: | Arena Sport |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 30th |
| Release Date: | 7 April 2020 |
| Weight: | 412g |
| Dimensions: | 220mm x 145mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Tom English
Tom English is an award-winning BBC Sport writer and broadcaster. A former Irish rugby correspondent with the Sunday Times and chief sports writer with Scotland on Sunday, he was voted Scottish Sports Feature Writer of the Year six times. He won Rugby Book of the Year at the 2011 British Sports Book Awards for The Grudge, before claiming the prize again in 2016 for No Borders: Playing Rugby for Ireland. He is a co-author of the best-selling Behind The Lions: Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions and When Lions Roared: The Lions, the All Blacks and the Epic Tour of 1971.
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