Winter Colours

Changing Seasons in World Rugby

Donald McRae

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781471135392
• eBook ISBN:
  9781471135408

Rugby is a sport that means different things to different people around the world. So when award-winning writer Donald McRae set off to take the pulse of the sport soon after the dawn of the professional era, he began to build a portrait of the game that highlighted the contrasts between nations, who may have been united in their love for rugby, but who saw it in very different ways.

Featuring in-depth interviews with a range of great players from around the world, including Sean Fitzpatrick, Francois Pienaar and Lawrence Dallaglio among others, Winter Coloursis a compelling account of the culture of rugby as seen by its biggest stars - men who also hold dear the sport's very traditions that make it so special. This is a remarkable piece of writing and is sure to be of interest to all who follow the sport at any level.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Author biography
• Also by the Same Author
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Dedication page
• PART ONE The Colour of My Shirt
• PART TWO Changing Seasons
• Chapter 1 Small Moments
• Chapter 2 The Black Art
• Chapter 3 Four Countries, One Team
• Chapter 4 Hard Hit
• Chapter 5 Black and Blue
• Chapter 6 On the Black Road
• Chapter 7 A Green Light in Paris
• Chapter 8 An Autumn Break
• Chapter 9 From Sudbury to Ballymena
• Chapter 10 Allez Racing, Allez Brive
• Chapter 11 Les Bleus
• Chapter 12 Five Nations Blues
• Chapter 13 Summer’s Over . . . and We’re All Happy
• Chapter 14 The Big Man from Pukekohe
• Chapter 15 Swimming with Sharks
• Chapter 16 South Island Surfing
• Chapter 17 Rain and Hurricanes
• Chapter 18 An Australian Spiderman
• Chapter 19 Pantomime, Again
• Chapter 20 Beyond Toulouse
• Chapter 21 A Small Ache
• Chapter 22 Black, Green and Gold
• Afterword
• Postscript
• Acknowledgements