Unholy Union: How Professionalism Transformed Rugby's Amateur Heart

by Mike Aylwin and Michael Aylwin

Book Overview

No sport has undergone so traumatic a transformation as rugby since the turn of the century. The last of the major sports to be granted a licence to make or dispense money, rugby was propelled on a trajectory that has twisted its cumbersome frame to the very limits of integrity and continues to do so. The pressures exerted throughout, on infrastructure, economics, administrators and, most poignantly of all, the players themselves, have conjured...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472130693
• ISBN13: 9781472130693
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Constable & Robinson
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"