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The Grudge
Tom English
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Description for The Grudge
Paperback. Murrayfield, the Calcutta Cup, March 1990. England vs Scotland - winner-takes-all for the Five Nations Grand Slam, biggest prize in northern hemisphere rugby. Will Carling's England are the very embodiment of Margaret Thatcher's Britain. This title recaptures a day that has gone down in history when a rugby match became more than a game. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16pp b/w. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKS; 3JJPR; WSB; WSJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
Shortlised for the 2022 SBA Best Sports Book of the 21st Century prize
The gripping inside story of when an England-Scotland rugby match become more than a game
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224083218
SKU
V9780224083218
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About Tom English
Tom English was born in Limerick in 1969. He began his career at the Sunday Times and is now chief sports writer for Scotland on Sunday. In 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 he was named Scottish Sports Feature Writer of the Year. He lives in Stirlingshire with his wife and two children.
Reviews for The Grudge
I enjoyed this book enormously. The match is one of my enduring rugby memories, and reading The Grudge it all came flooding back
John Inverdale The finest book written on the tournament ... English has produced an absolutely outstanding work, weaving in the strands of history, politics, sociology, dislike and tactical nous, which makes the game probably the most ... Read more
John Inverdale The finest book written on the tournament ... English has produced an absolutely outstanding work, weaving in the strands of history, politics, sociology, dislike and tactical nous, which makes the game probably the most ... Read more