Matt Dawson: Nine Lives

Matt Dawson: Nine Lives
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The most capped England rugby scrum-half of all time, a captain of his country, and a two-times British Lions tourist, Matt Dawson’s career story is a colourful tale spiced with controversy, from club rugby at Northampton to England winning the Rugby World Cup in Australia.The boy from Birkenhead learnt the game the hard way, working as a security guard and an advertising salesman in his formative years, in the days when rugby players found relief in an active and alcoholic social life. (Dawson: ‘The drinking started on Saturday night, continued all Sunday and most nights until Thursday.’)Despite the frequent visits to the operating theatre and the physio’s table, hard graft for his club Northampton eventually heralded international recognition. Dawson talks about the influential, and occasional obstructive figures in his blossoming career: the likes of John Olver, Will Carling, Ian McGeechan and, more recently, Wayne Shelford, Kyran Bracken and Clive Woodward.In typically opinionated mode, he also reflects on the successes and failures of the England team and, famously, the Lions in Australia in 2001. After speaking out against punishing schedules, disenchanted players and lack of management support in a tour diary article, Dawson was almost sent home in disgrace. He revisits that bitterly disappointing period in his life and is still not afraid to point out where everything went wrong.Following England’s Rugby World Cup 2003 success, Dawson provides a first-hand account of all the dressing room drama – including a troubled Jonny Wilkinson – and the memorable final itself, followed by the stunning reaction to this historic win back home. And in a new updated chapter for this paperback edition, he reveals how the World Champions have overcome the retirement of key players, reviews the 2004 Six Nations, and looks at his own future in the game.

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Contents

Prologue

1 Growing Up

2 Losing Ground

3 Return of the Artful Dodger

4(i) Heaven and Hell LION CUB TO KING OF THE PRIDE

1997 Lions to South Africa: squad and results

4(ii) Heaven and Hell THE MAKING OF A CAPTAIN

England tour to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa 1998: squad and results

5(i) Misunderstood HATE MAIL, HATED MALE

5(ii) Misunderstood STRIKING PROGRESS, STRIKE IN PROGRESS

6 Foot in Mouth

Life with the Lions – part one of my account of the 2001 Tour. Saturday, 26 May

Sunday, 27 May

Monday, 28 May

Tuesday, 29 May

Wednesday, 30 May

Thursday, 31 May

Friday, 1 June

Saturday, 2 June

Sunday, 3 June

Monday, 4 June

Tuesday, 5 June

Wednesday, 6 June

Thursday, 7 June

Friday, 8 June

Saturday, 9 June

Sunday, 10 June

Monday, 11 June

Tuesday, 12 June

Wednesday, 13 June

Thursday, 14 June

Friday, 15 June

Saturday, 16 June

Sunday, 17 June

Monday, 18 June

Tuesday, 19 June

Wednesday, 20 June

Thursday, 21 June

Friday, 22 June

Saturday, 23 June

Sunday, 24 June

Monday, 25 June

Tuesday, 26 June

Wednesday, 27 June

Thursday, 28 June

Friday, 29 June

Saturday, 30 June

Life with the Lions – part two of. my account of the 2001 Tour. Sunday, 1 July

Monday, 2 July

Tuesday, 3 July

Wednesday, 4 July

Thursday, 5 July

Friday, 6 July

Saturday, 7 July

Sunday, 8 July

Monday, 9 July

Tuesday, 10 July

Wednesday, 11 July

Thursday, 12 July

Friday, 13 July

Saturday, 14 July

Sunday, 15 July

2001 Lions tour to Australia: squad and results

7 Going Off the Rails

8(i) Headstrong to Humble BASHED BY THE BOKS

8(ii) Headstrong to Humble GRAND SLAM AT LAST

England’s 2003 Grand Slam players and results

9(i) Shooting for the Pot HISTORY LESSON DOWN UNDER

2003 England tour to New Zealand. Sunday, 1 June

Monday to Tuesday, 2–3 June

Wednesday, 4 June

Thursday, 5 June

Friday, 6 June

Saturday, 7 June

Sunday, 8 June

Monday, 9 June

Tuesday, 10 June

Wednesday, 11 June

Thursday, 12 June

Friday, 13 June

Saturday, 14 June

2003 England tour to Australia. Sunday, 15 June

Monday, 16 June

Tuesday, 17 June

Wednesday, 18 June

Thursday, 19 June

Friday, 20 June

Saturday, 21 June

Sunday, 22 June to Wednesday, 25 June

9(ii) Shooting for the Pot THE GREATEST DAY OF ALL

Rugby World Cup 2003. Match 1: England 84 Georgia 6 (Subiaco Oval, Perth, 12 October 2003)

Match 2: England 25 South Africa 6 (Subiaco Oval Perth, 18 October 2003)

Match 3: England 35 Samoa 22 (Telstra Dome, Melbourne, 26 October 2003)

Match 4: England 111 Uruguay 13 (Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, 2 November 2003)

Final Pool C Table

Matt Dawson’s 2003 World Cup Diary Part 1. Tuesday, 30 September

Wednesday 1 – Thursday, 2 October

Friday, 3 October

Saturday, 4 October

Sunday, 5 October

Monday, 6 October

Tuesday, 7 October

Wednesday, 8 October

Thursday, 9 October

Friday, 10 October

Saturday, 11 October

Sunday, 12 October

Monday, 13 October

Tuesday, 14 October

Wednesday, 15 October

Thursday, 16 October

Saturday, 18 October

Sunday, 19 October

Monday, 20 October

Tuesday, 21 October

Wednesday, 22 October

Thursday, 23 October

Friday, 24 October

Saturday, 25 October

Sunday, 26 October

Monday, 27 October

Tuesday, 28 October

Wednesday, 29 October

Thursday, 30 October

Match 5: England 28 Wales 17 (quarter-final, Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, 9 November 2003)

Match 6: England 24 France 7 (semi-final, Telstra Stadium, Sydney, 16 November 2003)

Match 7: England 20 Australia 17 (aet, final, Telstra Stadium, Sydney, 22 November 2003)

Matt Dawson’s 2003 World Cup Diary Part 2. Friday, 31 October

Saturday, 1 November

Sunday, 2 November

Monday, 3 November

Tuesday, 4 November

Wednesday, 5 November

Thursday, 6 November

Friday, 7 November

Saturday, 8 November

Sunday, 9 November

Monday, 10 November

Tuesday, 11 November

Wednesday, 12 November

Thursday, 13 November

Friday, 14 November

Saturday, 15 November

Sunday, 16 November

Monday, 17 November

Tuesday, 18 November

Wednesday, 19 November

Thursday, 20 November

Friday, 21 November

Saturday, 22 November

Sunday, 23 November

England’s 2003 World Cup squad and results

10 Celebration Time

11 A Step Into the Unknown

1st Test: New Zealand 36 England 3 (Carisbrook Park, Dunedin, 12 June 2004)

2nd Test: New Zealand 36 England 12 (Eden Park, Auckland, 19 June 2004)

Test: Australia 51 England 15 (Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, 26 June 2004)

2004 England tour to New Zealand/Australia squad

PLATE SECTION

Index

Acknowledgements

Career Statistics. Milestones

Career Injuries

Copyright

About the Publisher

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MATT DAWSON

nine lives

.....

‘Wet them and they stick. You can then grab them and throw them in a bag,’ he explained. ‘Got it?’

We stayed on that farm for a month, the three of us living in a little annexe. After that we moved into a house in town and went from one labour job to another. We laid a resin concrete floor in a factory one day, landscaped a garden on another. No two days were the same.

.....

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