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About Jeff Connor
JEFF CONNOR was born in Manchester, went to school at Bury and lives in Lytham. He has worked for a number of national newspapers including the Daily Express, Daily Star, Scottish Sun, Scotland on Sunday and Scottish Mail on Sunday. He is the author of 12 books, including: Wide Eyed and Legless, the classic account of the 1987 Tour de France; The Lost Babes, the moving story of the Munich air disaster; The Philosophy of Risk, a biography of the tragic mountaineer Dougal Haston; Pointless, a season with Britain’s worst football team; Up and Under, an inside account of the 2001 Lions tour to Australia; and Giants of Scottish Rugby, which contains exclusive interviews with 40 of the nation’s greatest players. He recently published his first novel: Looking for Lulu.
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Features

That cold black magic

27 June 2018 Jeff Connor 2

Jeff Connor reviews two television documentaries which promise to get under the skin of two great rugby institutions, but fail to deliver …

International

View from the back row: After the Lord Mayor’s show

13 July 2017 Jeff Connor Comments Off on View from the back row: After the Lord Mayor’s show

Let’s not worry about picking the Lions squad for four years time, what about the plight of the Springboks today? Plus a few words in praise of Currie Chieftains. …

International

View from the back row: Send in the clowns

29 June 2017 Jeff Connor Comments Off on View from the back row: Send in the clowns

by JEFF CONNOR IT’S time the Lions management took New Zealand off the Thomas Cook tour list. Why go there when it’s become as enticing, and the natives just as cordial, as a day trip …

International

View from the back-row: Then there were two

14 June 2017 Jeff Connor Comments Off on View from the back-row: Then there were two

Lions snub suits Scotland and the madness of player ratings …

International

View from the back row: Remembering the first invasion of the rugby mercenaries

1 May 2017 Jeff Connor 5

Rugby ‘project players’ or should it be rugby mercenaries? I prefer the latter. It’s more honest and the other sounds like something from a Sean Spicer press conference. I did hear that the Scottish Rugby …

Features

One Knight, forty-five Lions: With Sir Clive Woodward in New Zealand … the final chapter

17 January 2017 Jeff Connor Comments Off on One Knight, forty-five Lions: With Sir Clive Woodward in New Zealand … the final chapter

With the 2017 British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand only months away, this is a retrospective of the last tour there. Jeff Connor, former chief rugby writer for the Scotland on Sunday newspaper, …

Features

One Knight, forty-five Lions: With Sir Clive Woodward in New Zealand … chapter six

28 December 2016 Jeff Connor 1

With the 2017 British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand only months away, this is a retrospective of the last tour there. Jeff Connor, former chief rugby writer for the Scotland on Sunday newspaper, …

Features

One Knight, forty-five Lions: With Sir Clive Woodward in New Zealand … chapter five

7 December 2016 Jeff Connor Comments Off on One Knight, forty-five Lions: With Sir Clive Woodward in New Zealand … chapter five

With the 2017 British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand only months away, this is a retrospective of the last tour there. Jeff Connor, former chief rugby writer for the Scotland on Sunday newspaper, …

Features

One Knight, forty-five Lions: With Sir Clive Woodward in New Zealand … chapter four

30 November 2016 Jeff Connor 1

With the 2017 British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand only months away, this is a retrospective of the last tour there. Jeff Connor, former chief rugby writer for the Scotland on Sunday newspaper, …

Features

One Knight, forty-five Lions: With Sir Clive Woodward in New Zealand … chapter three

16 November 2016 Jeff Connor Comments Off on One Knight, forty-five Lions: With Sir Clive Woodward in New Zealand … chapter three

With the 2017 British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand only months away, this is a retrospective of the last tour there. Jeff Connor, former chief rugby writer for the Scotland on Sunday newspaper, …

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