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