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Once Were Lions: The Players’ Stories电子书

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作       者:Jeff Connor,Martin Hannan

出  版  社:HarperSport

出版时间:2009-04-30

字       数:58.1万

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Drawing on first hand interviews from more than 75 British Lions tourists since the golden age of the fifties, this book captures what it means to be a British Lions rugby player – the historic victories, the glorious failures and the stories surrounding the icons of rugby such as Edwards, Bennett, Hastings, Guscott, Dallaglio and Johnson. The British and Irish Lions are one of the most famous and recognised teams in world rugby. Every four years, the Lions – selected from the national sides of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland – head to the southern hemisphere to do battle with either New Zealand, Australia or South Africa. In Once Were Lions, acclaimed sportswriter Jeff Connor interviews a host of players – from the oldest surviving Lions from the 1946 tour and the icons of the game to those who have become mere footnotes in history – and draws out the compelling human stories from each Test series. It’s a book that captures the ups and downs of tour life: the pride of being a Lion, the numerous personal feuds and the many humorous anecdotes, taking in the historic wins and the ignoble losses. Many Lions had their lives enriched by having worn the famous red jersey; an equal number had their lives changed irrevocably in the opposite direction. Full of previously unchronicled stories – Des O’Brien was away from home for nine months on the 1946 tour which almost cost him his marriage; while in 1966 one well-known English winger ‘went off tour’ with a woman he met in a bar and reappeared only for the last two matches – the book concludes with the disastrous 2005 New Zealand tour and trenchant opinions from the players on the controversial Clive Woodward.
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Cover

Title Page

Contents

Foreword by Finlay Calder OBE

Preface The men who once were Lions

Chapter 1 - First twenty years of the Lions 1888–1908

Chapter 2 - Then they were Lions 1910–1938

Chapter 3 - Karl Mullen’s Happy Band Australia and New Zealand 1950

Chapter 4 - Robin Thompson’s Quality Street Gang South Africa 1955

Chapter 5 - Ronnie Dawson’s Proud Squad Australia, New Zealand and Canada 1959

Chapter 6 - Arthur Smith’s Big Boys didn’t cry South Africa 1962

Chapter 7 - Mike Campbell-Lamerton and how the Lions were mauled Australia, New Zealand and Canada 1966

Chapter 8 - Tom Kiernan’s Frolicsome Brigade South Africa 1968

Chapter 9 - John Dawes and The Great Revival New Zealand and Australia 1971

Chapter 10 - Willie John Mcbride’s Legends South Africa 1974

Chapter 11 - Phil Bennett’s Bad News Boys New Zealand and Fiji 1977

Chapter 12 - Bill Beaumont and The Bad Luck Tour South Africa 1980

Chapter 13 - Ciaran Fitzgerald’s Men Cut Down New Zealand 1983

Chapter 14 - Finlay Calder: No Compromise Australia

Chapter 15 - Gavin Hastings and the tale of two tours New Zealand 1993

Chapter 16 - Martin Johnson’s Marvels South Africa 1997

Chapter 17 - Scribblers for Martin Johnson’s Lions Australia 2001

Chapter 18 - Speared by the all Blacks: Brian O’Driscoll New Zealand 2005

Chapter 19 - Lions for ever

Index

Roll of Honour and Archive of Results

Copyright

About the Publisher

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