Publisher's Synopsis
Pontypool Rugby Football Club was one of the great Welsh teams until it's decline in the 1990s; this is their story
In this engrossing book, Alun Carter and Nick Bishop recount the dramatic story of the rise and fall of one of the great enigmas of Welsh club rugby: Pontypool RFC. They chart the glories and violence of the amateur era in the 1970s and 1980s before the club entered a period of steady decline in the age of professionalism, reaching the point of bankruptcy after a crippling legal battle with the Welsh Rugby Union. It is a symbolic tale of the disintegration of the social fabric that held a once-great club together, both on and off the playing field—often irresistibly funny, eventually tragic, but always larger than life.
