3,99 €
3,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
Sofort per Download lieferbar
payback
0 °P sammeln
3,99 €
3,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
Sofort per Download lieferbar

Alle Infos zum eBook verschenken
payback
0 °P sammeln
Als Download kaufen
3,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
Sofort per Download lieferbar
payback
0 °P sammeln
Jetzt verschenken
3,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
Sofort per Download lieferbar

Alle Infos zum eBook verschenken
payback
0 °P sammeln
  • Format: ePub

What is the state of rugby?
Is the game on the brink of expansion?
Or is it on the brink of implosion?
No game has undergone so traumatic a transformation since the turn of the century. The last of the major sports to embrace professionalism, rugby was propelled on a trajectory that has twisted its cumbersome frame to the limit in a drama compelling and appalling to behold. After a hundred years defying the future, rugby now shudders with the turmoil of its sudden leap into the modern world, attaining heights hitherto undreamed of, even as the strains - financial, political,…mehr

  • Geräte: eReader
  • mit Kopierschutz
  • eBook Hilfe
  • Größe: 0.9MB
Produktbeschreibung
What is the state of rugby?
Is the game on the brink of expansion?
Or is it on the brink of implosion?

No game has undergone so traumatic a transformation since the turn of the century. The last of the major sports to embrace professionalism, rugby was propelled on a trajectory that has twisted its cumbersome frame to the limit in a drama compelling and appalling to behold. After a hundred years defying the future, rugby now shudders with the turmoil of its sudden leap into the modern world, attaining heights hitherto undreamed of, even as the strains - financial, political, social and medical - threaten to tear it apart.

With a global focus (and a particular lens on Australasian and South African rugby), Unholy Union is a fascinating and in-depth analysis of the sport, examining the journey so far and speculating on where it will go next. It is irreverent and provocative, asking uncomfortable questions of rugby, but imbued throughout with affection for a game that integrates all human life, as beautiful as it is ugly, as in love with itself as it is terrified.

Sports enter periods that make or break them.

Rugby is in one now . . .


Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Autorenporträt
Michael Aylwin is a rugby writer for the Guardian of 20 years' experience, with a BSc in Sociology and an MA in Medieval Studies. He is the best-selling, award-winning author of five books. His last non-fiction book, Beyond the Horizon, won Rugby Book of the Year in the British Sportsbook Awards, and the one before that, A Life Without Limits, was a Sunday Times #1 bestseller, shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.