The Rugby Blanket
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (528 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00A6GREWA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 212 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In a household where Rugby was both revered and reviled depending on which parent he was talking to, he grows to love the sport.Armed only with a tartan picnic blanket bought in Auckland’s red light district by his grandmother, Kerry realises after a ‘forced inheritance’ that the blanket seems to affect the results of the team directly. The journey of Kerry and the blanket is a constant but the reader is also treated to a concise history of the Rugby World Cup and important moments in NZ history including the Anti-Apartheid movement and the Christchurch Earthquakes. As each Cup passes Kerry must grow up and move forward but the blanket is an ever present reminder that sometimes it’s ok to hold onto to the past – if it wins you the Cup.. While this recollection focuses on superstition and sport, like the blanket, this memoir has many threads. He does this with a simple inanimate object – A Blanket.A product of two radical protestors that stopped a Rugby match in 1981, Kerry Muir was never likely to become a diehard rugby fan. The four yearly intervals of a World Cup see the writer grow: From boy to paperboy, a student flat to a European sojourn and from fiancée to father. This man, with reckless action, has consistently knocked the World’s most famous Rugby team out of the World Cup to an entire nation’s distre
Interesting read Amazon Customer If you are into rugby or the all blacks then you will enjoy reading this book.Also very good insight on rugby in New Zealand and the culture of the country.. Humorous quirky account of a rugby fan's life M O'Brien An enjoyable read. I'm not from New Zealand, but thoroughly enjoyed being taken on the rollercoaster ride of a rugby supporter watching his team mostly win - but also lose at gut-churning moments. The author has a penchant for wry one-liners which send up how serious we supporters can be about the sport we follow. It's a fast moving humorous read, punctuated with a sensitive take on life's personal tragedies that bring mere sport into perspective.I know little ab. Nancy V. Yinger said Rugby and more. A friend recommend this book to me. I wasn't sure I would like it since I am not a rugby fan, nor even a big sports fan in general. But I enjoyed Invictus so I thought I would give it a try. All right I confess, I have not become a rugby fan after reading it, but the book is well written so I feel as if I had attended and felt the excitment and tension of lots and lots of rugby matches. I even began to look for certain descriptive terms to see if the teams were l