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Unholy Union

When Rugby Collided with the Modern World

By (author) Mike Aylwin
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Constable
Published: 5th Sep 2019
Dimensions: w 158mm h 236mm d 32mm
Weight: 580g
ISBN-10: 1472130693
ISBN-13: 9781472130693
Barcode No: 9781472130693
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Synopsis
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. 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 . . .

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