It chronicles the rise of rugby league in France prior to WWII and the reasons for its demise thereafter. Want to know why a boring sport like rugby union can boast a greater amount of countries playing at a higher level than the clearly more entertaining rugby league? The elitist attitudes of the rugby union establishment as outlined here are enough to A story of insecure bullies cutting their opponents legs off at the knee to ensure they can't run in the race.
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Want to know why a boring sport like rugby union can boast a greater amount of countries playing at a higher level than the clearly more entertaining rugby league? This book is a good starting point. Now that an official government enquiry is being conducted into France's dark past under the Vichy regime, Mike Rylance's research, conducted over many years, is both a timely testament and a masterly account of one of sport's greatest injustices.moreĪ story of insecure bullies cutting their opponents legs off at the knee to ensure they can't run in the race.
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In this book, the full story of French rugby's tragedy is presented to a British audience for the first time. A victim of the shadowy rugby union figures who stalked the newly-opened corridors of power at Vichy, rugby league suffered a scandalous abuse of authority which has had repercussions up to the present day. Only six seasons later, le rugby frieze, thr troublesome upstart, was wiped out by a conspiracy which counts as one of the most extreme examples of one sport's hostility towards another. Corruption, brutality and shamateurism had plagued the world of orthodox rugby when rugby league made its first appearance across the Channel, bringing with it open professionalism and a new, dynamic sporting spectacle which delighted the public. Corruption, brutality and shamateurism had plagued the world of orthodox rugby when rugby league made its first appearance across the Channel, bringing with it open professionalism and a new, dyn The phenomenal rise of rugby league in pre-war France and its scandalous obliteration by the collaborationist Vichy government qualifies as one of the greatest stories never told. The phenomenal rise of rugby league in pre-war France and its scandalous obliteration by the collaborationist Vichy government qualifies as one of the greatest stories never told.
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