When Lions Roared (eBook)

The Lions, the All Blacks and the Legendary Tour of 1971

Tom English, Peter Burns (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
328 Seiten
Birlinn (Verlag)
978-0-85790-343-3 (ISBN)

Infos

By 1971 no Lions team had ever defeated the All Blacks in a Test series. Since 1904, six Lions sides had travelled to New Zealand and all had returned home bruised, battered and beaten. But the 1971 tour party was different. It was full of young, ambitious and outrageously talented players who would all go on to carve their names into the annals of sporting history during a golden period in British and Irish rugby. And at their centre was Carwyn Jones – an intelligent, sensitive rugby mastermind who would lead his team into the game's hardest playing arena while facing a ferocious, tragic battle in his personal life, all in pursuit of a seemingly impossible dream.
Up against them was an All Blacks team filled with legends in the game in the likes of Colin Meads, Brian Lochore, Ian Kirkpatrick, Sid Going and Bryan Williams. But as the Lions swept through the provinces, lighting up the rugby fields of New Zealand the pressure began to mount on the home players in a manner never seen before. As the Test series loomed, it became clear that a clash that would echo through the ages was about to unfold. And at its conclusion, it was obvious to all that rugby would never be the same again.

Autor

Peter Burns is the editor for Arena Sport and author of Behind the Thistle: Playing Rugby for Scotland, Behind the Ryder Cup: The Players' Stories, White Gold: England's Journey to World Cup Glory and, like Tom, is also a co-author of Behind the Lions: Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions. Tom English is an award-winning BBC Sport writer and broadcaster. He won Rugby Book of the Year at the 2011 British Sports Book Awards for The Grudge, before claiming the prize again in 2016 for No Borders: Playing Rugby for Ireland. He is a co-author of the bestselling Behind the Lions: Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1971 • All Blacks • Barry John • Biography • Brian Lochore • British • British & Irish Lions • British Lions • Bryan Williams • Carwyn • Carwyn James • Colin Meads • David Duckham • dawes • Gareth Edwards • Gerald Davies • Gordon Brown • History • Irish • Joe Schmidt • John • John Bevan • John Dawes • John Taylor • Jones • JPR Williams • Lions • Lions 1971 • Lions 1974 • Lions 2017 • Lions tour • Lions victory • Maro Itoje • Mervyn Davies • Mike Gibson • New Zealand • Owen Farrell • Rory Best • Rugby • Rugby Union • Sam Warburton • Sean Fitzpatrick • Sean O’Brien • Sid Going • Sport • sport and recreation • Steve Hansen • Tour • Warren Gatland • Willie John McBride
• ISBN-10: 0-85790-343-8 / 0857903438
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85790-343-3 / 9780857903433