Odd-Shaped Balls: Mischief-Makers, Miscreants and Mad-Hatters Of Rugby

Rugby is not a game for those who think that centres are what you find in a box of Black Magic or who confuse Jonah Lomu with Joanna Lumley. At the same time, it is not a game for the bright: what kind of tortured mind would invent an oval ball? Of course, it helps if you know the rules and don't have any fear. In this respect you are in the same boat as most referees, particularly if you have a problem with your eyesight.

Odd-Shaped Balls captures the humour, the agony and the ecstasy of o...