Badger's Rugby Compendium
Badger Books Limited (Verlag)
978-1-0685854-8-7 (ISBN)
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If you had never seen a rugby match, say you were born and bred on Pluto but you were fluent in English, on tuning into a match you might ask yourselves three questions: i) Why are all these people rolling around in the mud? ii) Why are they so cross with each other? iii) Why is the commentator talking in Klingon?
Many people let rugby pass them by as they do cricket and other sports built upon a complex set of rules. To understand the rules, to take some pleasure from a sport, as anything else in life, you must understand the language by which it is described. To go one level deeper and take joy from the sport and immerse yourself in its culture, traditions and nuances, you must have a working knowledge of its jargon and slang. What do they say? The limit of my world is the limit of my words.
‘He’s a hoisted a bomb there, buried him with a snotter, gone in for the jackal, hands all over the egg, given him a facial, and kicked off the handbags. He’s getting pinged here and he’s got himself ten minutes riding the pine or I’m Bill Beaumont.’ There’s only one reaction a rugby stranger might have to that: ‘You what?’ I mean, no wonder the rugby-curious viewer keeps flicking the remote.
The aim of this little glossary of rugby union terminology, banter and vernacular is to offer some light entertainment for the devoted fan, but also a little enlightenment for the uninitiated and bemused.
Niall Edworthy is one of the UK's most prolific authors and successful ghostwriters. A former reporter for broadsheet newspapers and the international wire agencies AFP and Reuters, he has covered many major sporting events including two Rugby World Cups. Niall began writing books in 1997. He is the author or ghost of almost 50 titles, most for the big publishing houses, many of them for well-known names (actors, soldiers, musicians, sportsmen & television personalities), others for ‘ordinary’ people with extraordinary stories. He has written in a wide range of genres, mainly Biography, History and Sport but also Humour, Natural History and recently, in Fiction. His first novel, Otto Eckhart’s Ordeal, was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Best Published Novel Award 2021.
Aerial Ping-Pong … Attacking Rugby
Back into Traffic … Bury
Camp In … Cuff, Off the
Dark Arts … Dump tackle
Early Pressure … Eye-gouging
Facial … Front Up
Gain Line … Gumshield
Hacking … Helter-Skelter
Ice Bath … Knows the Way to the Try-line
Latcher … Lump, Big
Made to Look Silly … Mulligrubber
Nause … Numbers!
Obstruction … Ownership, Taking
Pack … Pylons
Raking … Running on Empty
Schoolboy Mistakes … Subs Suit
Tackle Suit … Turnstile Defence
Uncontested Scrum … Varsity Match
Wales … Zinzan
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Badger Sport Humour ; 4 |
| Zusatzinfo | 30 |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport | |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-0685854-8-X / 106858548X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-0685854-8-7 / 9781068585487 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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