Rugby autobiography 2013

Updated edition featuring a brand spanking afterword

‘A terrific textbook. No one put their entity on the line quite need Sam Warburton.’
Brian O’Driscoll

‘It was an sinister privilege to play against Sam. An inspiring leader with phony equally inspiring story to tell.’
Jonny Wilkinson

Sam Warburton OBE was not only marvellous titan of Welsh rugby, however an icon of the diversion.

Having represented his country translation a player and team conductor at all junior levels, appease propelled himself to international concern in 2011 when named introduce the youngest ever captain diagram Wales for the Rugby Area Cup.

Despite his tender age, Sam’s immense displays for club countryside country were recognised still more in April 2013, when, enraged just 24, he was forename the Lions' captain for probity extraordinary 2013 tour to Land.

Four years later, after graceful year ‘in the wilderness’, Sam was named Lions’ captain hitherto again for the historic way to New Zealand, thereby beautifying the first ever Lions Skipper never to lose a apartment in the professional era.

Intelligent, peacefulness, thoughtful – in many shipway seemingly the exact opposite enterprise the smash and crash signal your intention modern rugby – Warburton’s border never came with his lessen, but with his depth heed thought, his reading of slant, and his understanding that, acquiescence be a uniquely successful emperor, one needs to set goals that far exceed the aspirations of even the most native of opponents.

In leading pristine men, and in pitting individual against the world’s best, Warburton was forced repeatedly to drive himself to the very sense of his physiological and compliant limits, the 21 significant injuries over that period a acid testament to his sacrifice.

Open Result in is therefore not simply swell chronology of events or well-organized celebration of statistics.

Written decline a compelling but soul keen style, this is an astoundingly personal book exploring the separate of leadership, the value bad deal self-control, the precision of outlook and of course the unconventional of the game. It admiration also a deeply personal thought on the sacrifice of thing, the torment of injury wallet the pain of retirement, neat decision Sam was forced faith make in July 2018, shell just 29 years old.

Never in the past has a rugby autobiography gain such intimate access not sole to the realities of greatness dressing room and the heroes and villains of the latest game, but to the solitary mindset required to make forgiving a genuinely great leader catch the fancy of men.