{"id":20932,"date":"2012-01-17T19:56:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T19:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=20932"},"modified":"2012-01-18T10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T10:05:52","slug":"book-review-the-cream-of-the-crop-a-century-of-twickenham-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/book-review-the-cream-of-the-crop-a-century-of-twickenham-legends\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REVIEW: THE CREAM OF THE CROP ~ A Century of Twickenham Legends"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Century of Twickenham Legends celebrates Twickenham\u0001s centenary and its best and most well-known Rugby Union players<\/p>\n

In 1910, Billy Williams\u0001 former \u0002cabbage patch\u0001 staged its first rugby international in Twickenham and the\u00a0Headquarters of the 15-a-side game in England was established. To help mark Twickenham\u0001s 100th birthday, the\u00a0World Museum of Rugby set up the Wall of Fame, to pay homage to the top 100 players \u0004from 11 rugby-playing\u00a0nations\u0005 who have appeared on the ground over those 10 decades. Two of the most notable are England\u0001s Freddie\u00a0Chapman, who scored his first international try at Twickenham in the first match played there, and Martin Johnson,\u00a0who crowned his distinguished playing career by captaining the team to Rugby World Cup victory in Australia in\u00a02003. Among the other players inducted onto the wall are Jonah Lomu, Ronnie Poulton Palmer and Will Carling.\u00a0Author David Llewellyn, who has 30 years\u0001 experience of reporting rugby and cricket, commemorates this list in A\u00a0Century of Twickenham Legends. He profiles each player, providing biographical and background information and\u00a0records their memories of the famous stadium; there are some previously unheard anecdotes, ranging from amusing\u00a0to downright audacious. The book kicks off with a characteristically amusing and witty foreword from The\u00a0Independent\u0001s Rugby Union Correspondent Chris Hewett.\"\"<\/a> \u0006After discussions with the Museum curators, I felt the virtual reality of the Wall of Fame deserved a more solid base.\u00a0The worthiness of the original project begged for there to be a book!\u0007 says David of his motivation to write the book.\u00a0A Century of Twickenham Legends is a must-read for all rugby fans.\u00a0\u0006The glory of this book is its capacity to stir, to provoke, to celebrate.\u0007\u00a0Chris Hewett, Rugby Correspondent, The Independent\u00a0Author of The First Lady of Mulberry Walk \u0004Matador, 2010\u0005 DAVID LLEWELLYN played Rugby Union at school and then for a year\u00a0in France. He began reporting the sport, first for the Western Daily Press in his home town of Bristol, then for the Observer. He\u00a0worked for 11 years for the Daily Express, also covering soccer and cricket, and for the last 20 years has worked as a freelance reporter,\u00a0covering Rugby Union and cricket for The Independent. He is married to Hilary, a GP, and now lives in Kent.
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\nISBN: 9781848765634 Price: \u00a324.99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Century of Twickenham Legends celebrates Twickenham\u0001s centenary and its best and most well-known Rugby Union players In 1910, Billy Williams\u0001 former \u0002cabbage patch\u0001 staged its first rugby international in Twickenham and the\u00a0Headquarters of the 15-a-side game in England was established. To help mark Twickenham\u0001s 100th birthday, the\u00a0World Museum of Rugby set up the Wall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8534,7735,8535,8536,7971,5632,8537],"class_list":["post-20932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-book","tag-century","tag-cream","tag-crop","tag-legends","tag-review","tag-twickenham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20946,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20932\/revisions\/20946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}