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When Lions roared : the Lions, the All Blacks and the Legendary Tour of 1971 / Tom English, Peter Burns.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
English, Tom, 1969- author.
Burns, Peter, 1957- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Lions (Rugby Union team).
All Blacks (Rugby team).
Rugby football--Tournaments--Australia.
Rugby football.
Rugby football--Tournaments--New Zealand.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Polaris Publishing, 2017.
Summary:
This is the riveting story of the 1971 British & Irish Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand, which has gone down in history as one of the greatest of all time, based on exclusive new interview material with both the Lions and the All Blacks.'Brilliantly written - evocative, powerful and utterly gripping' - Rugby World.
Contents:
Intro
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Boy, could they play
One: We all wanted to be Carwyn James
Two: Am I boring you, you big prick?
Three: A fairly rude awakening
Four: That was the end of Ernest Grundelingh
Five: A thinking man's game
Six: Des Connor was a nutter
Seven: He squirmed and wriggled - couldn't take it anymore
Eight: Athletic Park - mindboggling
Nine: A dagger in the heart
Ten: Canterbury - it was just a bit of biff
Eleven: Like the Luftwaffe coming in
Twelve: They regarded me as a sissy
Thirteen: I was a farm boy - tough
Fourteen: Up the mountain, dead boar round my neck
Fifteen: JPR saved my life
Sixteen: Rumble in the bay
Seventeen: The Eighth Wonder of the World
Eighteen: The King abdicates
Nineteen: There is a great loneliness upon me
Twenty: No bugger wants to know you
Twenty-One: The Immortals
Epilogue: 'You wait until you play . . .'
Bibliography
Also Available from Polaris Publishing
Illustrations.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on print version record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
9780857903433
0857903438
OCLC:
987098244

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