Size Doesn't Matter - Pb: My Rugby Life
Language: English
Published by Milo Books, 2002
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- Title
- Size Doesn't Matter - Pb: My Rugby Life
- Author
- Back, Neil
- Publisher
- Milo Books
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1903854121
- ISBN 13
- 9781903854129
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Item weight
- 250 grams
In this, his autobiography, he describes his inspirational battle to disprove those who believed he was too small for international rugby. Laced with razor-edged insights and black humor, 'Size Doesn't Matter' is anindispensable chronicle of life at the front line of the toughest team game in sport.
"People often ask me who's the best I have played with or against. They expect me to name an All Black, a Wallaby or a Sprinbok. The answer is much closer to home: Neil Back." - Lawrence Dallaglio
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An openside flanker who reintroduced forward mobility to the lumpen, though locally successful, England teams of the 90s, Back prompted purists to hail the realisation of Southern Hemisphere-style "15-man rugby". However, it's easy to forget that even as a top-class pro with Leicester, Back was once widely considered too small for the big time. Easy, that is, until you read Back's own account of his wilderness years--when Geoff Cooke and Jack Rowell were picking the England side--and the painstakingly collated testimony of press and fellow professionals that "prove" he should have been in the national 15 all along.
Geoff Cooke and Jack Rowell robbed me of years of international rugby and the honour of representing my country on many more occasions than I have. Not only that ... I found them narrow-minded, unimaginative and downright rude.
With the hefty weight of arguably reasonable recriminations off his chest, Back turns out to be an entertaining chronicler of his career--tours of South Africa with both the British Lions and England, the 1999 World Cup and the Six Nations are all covered in detail. He gives us insights into the workings of winning and losing teams, and straight-talking assessments of the players he has lined up with, and up against. But he is at his most interesting when striking a blow for the "little fella", and targets such as the public school network and the big-money has-been foreign players getting a leg-up at British clubs get short shrift. --Alex Hankin
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