The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Rise and Fall of Pontypool RFC - Hardcover

Bishop, Nick; Carter, Alun

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780576374 ISBN 13: 9781780576374

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Pontypool Rugby Football Club was one of the great Welsh teams until it's decline in the 1990s; this is their story

In this engrossing book, Alun Carter and Nick Bishop recount the dramatic story of the rise and fall of one of the great enigmas of Welsh club rugby: Pontypool RFC. They chart the glories and violence of the amateur era in the 1970s and 1980s before the club entered a period of steady decline in the age of professionalism, reaching the point of bankruptcy after a crippling legal battle with the Welsh Rugby Union. It is a symbolic tale of the disintegration of the social fabric that held a once-great club together, both on and off the playing field—often irresistibly funny, eventually tragic, but always larger than life.

About this title

About the Author

Alun Carter is an ex-Wales internationalist and was head analyst for the national side for ten years. He played for Millau, Pontypool, Pontypridd, and his hometown of Newport. Nick Bishop has worked as a rugby analyst and scout for Graham Henry, and for the Wales National Squad. He is also the coauthor of Henry's Pride: Inside the Lions' Tour Down Under. Together, they are the author of Seeing Red: Twelve Tumultuous Years in Welsh Rugby.

Review

"Carter sees the playing and management sides of the same coin in a way that a player's autobiography so rarely does." —Times on Seeing Red

About this edition

• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780576374
• ISBN 13: 9781780576374
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304