Covering more than a century of rugby union football, IT'S NOT JUST A BLOODY GAME! brings together hundreds of the best and most colourful stories about the sport, from the days of early club rugby to the hotly contested international battles of today, including the regional competitions and the World Cup.With a foreword by Mark Ella and insights from renowned rugby writer Greg Growden, IT'S NOT JUST A BLOODY GAME is a collection of timeless rugby stories in which the stars, players and commentators reveal the myths and inside stories from the rich history, of this popular international game.
Greg Growden (c. 1960 – 14 November 2020) was an Australian sports journalist, author and biographer.
Growden grew up on his family's rice farm in the Riverina. He joined the Sydney Morning Herald in early 1978 soon after leaving school. He was chief rugby union correspondent for the paper from 1987 to 2012, and was the Australian rugby union correspondent for ESPN from 2012 to 2018. He is one of just two international rugby writers to cover all of the first eight World Cups.
He died of cancer on 14 November 2020. - wikipeadia