The oval world : a global history of rugby /
Rugby has always been a sport with as much drama off the field as on it. For every thrilling last-minute Jonny Wilkinson drop-goal to win the World Cup or Jonah Lomu rampage down the touchline for a try there has been a split, a feud, or a controversy. The Oval World is the first full-length histor...
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Kick-off
- Towards five nations
- Making a rugby world
- Golden years amidst the gathering storm
- Challenge and change in the interwar years
- Rugby's new horizons
- Tradition and transformation
- Into the 21st century.