Scrum down
Paul Smith, 14 November 1996
Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity
edited by John Nauright and Timothy Chandler.
Cass, 260 pp., £35, April 1996,0 7146 4637 7 Show More
edited by John Nauright and Timothy Chandler.
Cass, 260 pp., £35, April 1996,
“... that for South Africans ‘the rugby scrum was symbolic of the laager,’ John Nauright and Timothy Chandler enter the reservation that ‘such notions can be taken too far.’ Indeed they can. An inward-facing huddle of wagons, their occupants locked in some obscure struggle of their own, would have presented little problem to a marauding Zulu ... ”