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Reilly : A Life In Rugby League, Paperback / softback Book

Reilly : A Life In Rugby League Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Never before in the UK has a Rugby League man of Malcolm Reilly's legendary status issued such a full and revealling autobiography.

Reilly has been a household name in Rugby League for over 30 years -three decades in which he strode like a colossus over the world of this toughest of team sports.

He was a champion player, and a champion coach, in both England and Australia - and Reilly reveals one man's personal story behind many of Rugby League's most famous, and infamous, days of the last 30 years, told just as he played his football - with no holds barred.

Malcolm Reilly developed a reputation as the most feared player in the game at a time when Rugby League was at its most brutal during the 60's and 70's.

His book recalls that club career at home with highly controversial Lions tour in which he starred the last time a British team won the coveted Ashes.

Rupert Murdoch's million dollar war to take control of the game, with Malcolm Reilly bang in the middle of it He also describes the fairytale triumph with his Newcastle team in Australia in 1997 followed by the drugs storm that broke around them less than a year later.

Reilly has been adapted in this UK version with Harry Edgar, one of the most experienced writers on international affairs in the world of rugby.

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