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Number Nine Dream: An Autobiography
by
Rob Howley
Robert Howley was a late developer in terms of playing international rugby, but by 28 he was the captain of Wales. In this account, he looks back at his own injury heartache, his late development, the pain of seeing a friend temporarily paralysed and the various scrapes with officialdom he has been involved in throughout his career. He talks in detail about the teething pr
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Hardcover
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208 pages
Published
February 21st 2000
by Mainstream Publishing Company
(first published February 2000)
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Another book that takes the reader from the players youth up to the 1999 Rugby Union World Cup. Rob takes us through some of the worst years in Welsh Rugby and gives an account that binds other books in this genre, together. He talks about the rebel years with Cardiff and Swansea playing English clubs but this time from the Cardiff perspective rather than Scott Gibbs' Swansea perspective (see Scott Gibbs - Getting Physical). He talks of his international combination with Neil Jenkins at number 1
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