David Lawrenson was born in St Helens, Lancashire. He began his journalistic career on The St Helens Reporter and spent most of his career writing about rugby, both league and union, for a variety of magazines and newspapers including The Sunday Times and The Observer. David has written several books including Martin Offiah: Blaze of Glory and Martin Offiah: My Autobiography, and Scott Gibbs’s autobiography Getting Physical and The Rugby League Miscellany a weird and wonderful collection of stories about the sport. Latterly, he spent six years with the Rugby Football League as a media and marketing executive.
A Different Game
In the 1980s, rugby union was still an amateur sport. But if you were talented, you could make a name for yourself in this predominantly middle-class world. Richard Ellis, a working-class lad, defies the odds and plays for a top London club. His rugby prowess attracts the attention of England select...
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