- 2005 edition, 208 pages
- Published by Hodder Moa Beckett
- Softcover, Format A
- Very good condition, minor cover wear and curling. Name written on free front end paper.
Colour photograph illustrated. List of Paddy's Appointments included. Foreword by Sir Clive Woodward.
When Paddy O'Brien turned in a disastrous refereeing performance at Toulouse during the 1999 Rugby World Cup, his career was at a crossroads. Many sportsmen would never have rebounded from such a setback. But Paddy resolved to rebuild his career and to become a better referee than ever. How he achieved that, to win recognition within four years as one of the top two referees in the world, makes this a truly enthralling, inspirational sporting biography.
Paddy is a remarkable individual. As a detective he helped solve murder cases, as a sportsman he set a New Zealand record, as a referee he's been on the test rugby scene longer than any All Black.
Thanks to Paddy's amazing recall of events and conversations, the book is chock full of amusing and insightful anedotes. He's been privy to the gamemanship and classic throwaway lines of players like Sean Fitzpatrick and referees like Derek Bevan and Didier Mene. And he reveals how he got even with John Eales after the Queensland captain had thrown him in a fountain in South Africa.
He has known family tragedy and as a policeman he had to hunt down a killer after a colleague was brutually beaten to death.
He rounds out one of the most enlightening and entertaining sports biographies ever published with his diary on the 2003 World Cup.
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