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The Rugby Blanket Kindle Edition

by K D Muir (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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When a sports fan claims he has knocked his country out of the World Cup, it’s easy to dismiss the claim and focus on the team he follows. But once the years have been reviewed and details recounted the coincidences are startling. This man, with reckless action, has consistently knocked the World’s most famous Rugby team out of the World Cup to an entire nation’s distress. He does this with a simple inanimate object – A Blanket.

A product of two radical protestors that stopped a Rugby match in 1981, Kerry Muir was never likely to become a diehard rugby fan. In a household where Rugby was both revered and reviled depending on which parent he was talking to, he grows to love the sport.

Armed only with a tartan picnic blanket bought in Auckland’s red light district by his grandmother, Kerry realises after a ‘forced inheritance’ that the blanket seems to affect the results of the team directly. He struggles to believe that such an object really works. Each time he doubts the object, the All Blacks suffer.

While this recollection focuses on superstition and sport, like the blanket, this memoir has many threads. The journey of Kerry and the blanket is a constant but the reader is also treated to a concise history of the Rugby World Cup and important moments in NZ history including the Anti-Apartheid movement and the Christchurch Earthquakes. The four yearly intervals of a World Cup see the writer grow: From boy to paperboy, a student flat to a European sojourn and from fiancée to father. As each Cup passes Kerry must grow up and move forward but the blanket is an ever present reminder that sometimes it’s ok to hold onto to the past – if it wins you the Cup.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00A6GREWA
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ K D Muir; 1st edition (November 11, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 11, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 612 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 209 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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K D Muir

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New Zealand-born K.D. Muir resides in Malahide, Co. Dublin with his wife and daughters. Inspired by travel to every continent "except the really cold one," he has penned novels across the suspense/thriller genres. Recently he has published his first memoir 'The Rugby Blanket' with Kindle. The story follows the writers obsession with New Zealand's national game from a superstitious standpoint and twenty five-years following the All Blacks at World Cups. He is currently working on two suspense novels based in Dublin.

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Nancy V. Yinger
4.0 out of 5 stars Rugby and more
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2013
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A friend recommend this book to me. I wasn't sure I would like it since I am not a rugby fan, nor even a big sports fan in general. But I enjoyed Invictus so I thought I would give it a try. All right I confess, I have not become a rugby fan after reading it, but the book is well written so I feel as if I had attended and felt the excitment and tension of lots and lots of rugby matches. I even began to look for certain descriptive terms to see if the teams were living up to expectations (oh the poor Japanese and Namibia teams). And more importantly I laughed at the role of the Rugby Blanket throughout the book, a great way to link the story together. I admit I also cried (figuratively) at certain non-rugby-related aspects of the book, including, but not limited to, the terrible earthquake that struck Christchurch. I also feel like I know more about New Zealand in general, through the lens of the author's life.
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M O'Brien
4.0 out of 5 stars Humorous quirky account of a rugby fan's life
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2012
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An enjoyable read. I'm not from New Zealand, but thoroughly enjoyed being taken on the rollercoaster ride of a rugby supporter watching his team mostly win - but also lose at gut-churning moments. The author has a penchant for wry one-liners which send up how serious we supporters can be about the sport we follow. It's a fast moving humorous read, punctuated with a sensitive take on life's personal tragedies that bring mere sport into perspective.

I know little about cricket, so skipped through an early section on the author's youthful experiences, but once past that point it was all rugby. I enjoyed the walk through memory lane as the writer takes us through the last two world cups in some detail - not just concentrating on the all blacks but also covering the other teams and the most memorable games.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2012
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If you are into rugby or the all blacks then you will enjoy reading this book.Also very good insight on rugby in New Zealand and the culture of the country.
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