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Jim Telfer is one of the greats of international rugby, with a career spanning five decades. Looking Back…For Once reveals how this shepherd s son from the Borders became the major driving force in the most successful days of Scottish rugby and steered the game into the professional era.
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Jim Telfer has been a mainstay of Scottish rugby since the early 1960s. In the '90s, he took over as the Scottish Rugby Union's first full-time director of rugby. A third Grand Slam and a Five Nations win book-ended that decade, and he retired from the game at the end of 2003. David Ferguson is the chief rugby writer with The Scotsman. He has reported on rugby across Scotland and abroad for the past 16 years, covering several World Cup tournaments and British and Irish Lions tours.
Review
"'Telfer lets rip'." -- David Kelso * Scottish Daily Express * "'One could sit and listen to Jim Telfer all day; if you do not have that opportunity, then this book is more than just a more than suitable replacement. You can hear the man as you read'." -- Atholl Innes * Border Telegraph * "'Many sporting autobiographies suffer from their authors shying away from any unpalatable truths that might dent the lustre of their reputations. Not so Jim Telfer'." -- Mark Entwistle * Southern Reporter *
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