Down and Dirty - A Rugby League Blogging Year

New blog book charting the 2008 rugby league season from kick-off to Grand Final.

Every week the Times newspaper Rugby League correspondent, Chris Irvine, keeps thousands of readers up to date with everything that’s going on both on and off the field of play. Not a results service but an informed lid blower on the RL world from shirt bloopers to Manchester Airport.

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Rugby League In Focus

Modern day Rugby League is physical, fast, fearsome....and photogenic.

One man has become a legend behind the lens, travelling the length and breadth of Britain and regularly crossing international datelines to record the expansion of the game in Australia, France, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Russia and the USA.

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Rugby League - Where Are They Now?

Whatever level you made it to in professional rugby league, your next match could easily have been your last. And when you had to hand over the ball after the sixth tackle of life what do you do? Take a leaf out of Gary Schofield’s book and become a bricklayer perhaps? Or go back into the painting and decorating game?

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Leeds United - Where Are They Now?

From milkman to comedian, carpet fitter to postman, Leeds United - Where Are They Now? tracks down every retired player from 1970 to find out exactly what they are doing today. 148 pages... 40,000 words... photographs of every player... 60 occupations... dozens of moustaches...

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Leeds United's Heaven 11

It its 128 pages lies the smouldering team sheet of Leeds teams you will never see play at Elland Road or any other ground. Over 110 specifically chosen teams of eleven players take to the field in a bid to get the best, and worst squad fit for a Saturday from over 100s of players who have represented Leeds United since 1970.

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