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Saving Rugby Union - the Price of Professionalism.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reyburn, Ross.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rugby Union football.
- Professional sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (128 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- : Y Lolfa, 2020.
- Summary:
- An unrivalled insight into the sad mismanagement of rugby union in the 25 years since it turned professional, endangering its future at amateur level. The book recounts the history of the early decades as a professional sport, and suggests solutions to the injury crisis and financial apartheid operated by the major northern-hemisphere unions.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- But what if they were right?
- State of the Union Game
- The Sorry Saga of the Crooked Scrum Feed
- The Concussion Crisis
- Treating Rugby’s Battlefield Casualties
- The Great Divide –Union v League
- Farewell Common Sense
- Has Rugby Union Lost its Values?
- The Good and the Bad – The 2019 World Cup
- The End of an Era – 27 August 2020
- Illustrations Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-80099-007-3
- OCLC:
- 1343248112
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