Hope and Glory: Rugby League in Thatcher's Britain

by Anthony Broxton

Hope and Glory recreates the extraordinary era of Thatcherite Britain with the dramatic tension of a novel, revealing it as a critical moment in rugby league history when despite losing everything, anything seemed possible. Rugby league should never have survived Thatcher's Britain. As the sport of the working class, the expectation was that rugby league would suffer the same fate as the textile mills, factories and coal mines that once surrounded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1801504555
• ISBN13: 9781801504553
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages