Rugby's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary But True Stories from Over a Century of Rugby

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Rugby fans will delight in this extraordinary collection of astonishing but true stories from the past 130 years, which reveal a bizarre and hitherto uncelebrated side to the sport. Here you'll find, among many other bizarre events, the Irish international who arranged his marriage in order to play against England, the match in which a team of top soccer players beat their rugby counterparts at their own game, the riotous encounter that meant that particular fixture was subsequently abandoned for seven years, the international match in which an entire Wales side were sent off, and the unknown player who was capped for his country due to an administrative mistake. Rugby's Strangest Matches...

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Overview

Rugby fans will delight in this extraordinary collection of astonishing but true stories from the past 130 years, which reveal a bizarre and hitherto uncelebrated side to the sport. Here you'll find, among many other bizarre events, the Irish international who arranged his marriage in order to play against England, the match in which a team of top soccer players beat their rugby counterparts at their own game, the riotous encounter that meant that particular fixture was subsequently abandoned for seven years, the international match in which an entire Wales side were sent off, and the unknown player who was capped for his country due to an administrative mistake. Rugby's Strangest Matches is a fascinating compendium that is sure to amuse and entertain.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781907554063
  • Publisher: Anova Books
  • Publication date: 11/1/2010
  • Pages: 166
  • Sales rank: 806,134
  • Series: Strangest series Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

John Griffiths was a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph's rugby column for many years, and is the author of several sports books, including The Book of English International Rugby, The Book of International Rugby Records, British Lions, and The Five Nations Championship.

Table of Contents

Introduction viii

1871 Dr Almond's words of wisdom 1

1877 The first fifteens 4

1878 And there was light 6

1884 The long disputed try 8

1887 A heroic act 10

1889 A Maori protest 12

1893 When the crowd didn't know the score 15

1903 A family affair 18

1903 A unique Scottish treble 19

1905 Disbelieving sport editors 21

1905 The referee performs a solo 23

1906 Selectors' cock-up 25

1910 Joe's New Year cap 27

1913 A game of four quarters 29

1920 Where's my shirt? 31

1923 Two freak scores 33

1924 Three pairs of brothers 35

1924 Bronze medal … just for turning up 36

1925 Moment that silenced Twickenham 38

1927 Back to square one 41

1931 French outcasts 43

1932 The over-inflated ball 45

1935 All Blacks beaten by schoolboys 47

1936 Fire brigade hoses crowd 49

1946 Passport scam 51

1949 The All Black day 53

1950 Army forgets its drill 55

1951 Murrayfield massacre 56

1953 Did the touch judge help Wales? 58

1955 The overbearing captain 60

1957 Entire Welsh XV ordered off 63

1958 Please can we have our ball back? 66

1959 Game that started a debate 68

1961 Role reversal 71

1961 Mother's Day 74

1963 Arctic match 76

1963 One hundred and eleven lineouts 78

1965 Hancock's half minute 80

1965 Refereeing history 83

1966 The battle of Waldron's ear 85

1967 The unbelievable debut 88

1967 Referee sent off 91

1968 The drop that never was 93

1968 A replacement's hat-trick 95

1969 Injured running out 97

1969 The game with a punch 99

1969 Building site rugby 101

1970 Kick his chauffeur while you're at it 103

1971 The greatest conversion since St Paul's 105

1972 English rugby's first Cup Final 107

1975 Up your jumper 109

1976 The referee who forgot the laws 111

1980 The printer's nightmare 113

1982 The most famous streaker of them all 114

1988 A very peculiar sending off 116

1991 An abandoned international 118

1991 The World Cup's defining moment 120

1994 Try from the end of the world 122

1995 Lights go out in Port Elizabeth 124

1996 Cross code challenge 126

1997 England's worst half-hour 130

1999 Fastest Test try 133

1999 Upset of the millennium 135

2000 European fiasco 138

2000 A helping hand 140

2001 Gloucester's drop of luck 142

2003 Our defence is their enemy 144

2007 Three of a kind 146

2007 Timed out 148

2007 A game played by youths and watched by hooligans 151

2009 Bloodgate 153

2007 Penalty Shoot-out 157

2007 Scrape to Victory 160

2007 Best Supporting Act 163

2007 A Brush with the Law 164

2007 Collector's Piece 166

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