A Season in Stripes by Michael Tanner

A Season in Stripes by Michael Tanner

Rugby clubs do not come any bigger than Leicester Tigers: 118 years of rich history studded with famous names and memorable triumphs; possessor of the finest club stadium in the land; the solitary English club granted an annual fixture with the Barbarians. With the onset of professionalism, rugby union has become big business. The Tigers have always been professional with a small "p"; this book describes how the professional club now lives and breathes with a capital "P". Michael Tanner was granted unlimited access throughout the 1997-1998 season and wherever the Tigers went, Michael Tanner was never far away; whatever Leicester did, he was recording it. In this book, train, play and travel alongside club captain Martin Johnson and the five other British Lions who successfully toured South Africa under his leadership; meet foreign superstars such as Springbok ace Joel Stransky and the mercurial Fijian, Waisale Serevi - acknowledged as the world's greatest exponent of rugby sevens; get to know stalwarts like Dean Richards and the legendary ABC Club of Messrs Rowntree, Cockerill and Garforth; share the emotional rollercoaster endured by 1991 World Cup winning coach Bob Dwyer as he encourages, cajoles and occasionally berates his players to even greater heights; and learn to appreciate the contribution made by an unsung army of backroom personnel, from Chief executive to cook.

Tanner, Michael: - Michael Tanner was born in 1933, the second of four children. He was evacuated at the age of seven but returned to Bristol before the end of the blitz. A new baby put all his mother's resilience to the test. His father, ex trooper, was invalided back to Blighty in WW1. and became an ARP Warden in the evenings. Michael has two sons and a daughter from his first marriage and another son and stepson from his remarriage after the tragic death of his first wife. His daughter gave him a granddaughter. He ran nine London marathons and remains a keen amateur naturalist. His Bristol B.A. was followed by National Service, mostly as a subaltern serving with the K.A.R. in Kenya. After that he trained as a teacher and taught, mainly English, for 38 years, at secondary schools, meanwhile obtaining a B.A. Hons English at Birkbeck. Most of his spare time he writes, and squeezes in study of foreign languages, and trying to play the clarinet. He feels much gratitude to many, especially his parents and a diminutive, asthmatic Scotsman, who taught him English at Grammar School.

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ISBN 13	9781840180527
ISBN 10	1840180528
Title	A Season in Stripes
Author	Michael Tanner
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published	1998-09-28
Number of pages	224
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