Ned Davy's Road to Redemption

Ned Davy's Road to Redemption

by Matthew Jansen
Publication Date: 09/05/2015

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In 1987, when we first and last held the Webb Ellis Trophy aloft, I was young and healthy and full of dreams. My hair was lush and reached all the way to my forehead and I knew exactly how I was going to be rich, famous and happy.


By 2007 I was forty-mumble, fat and fatigued. My hair had slipped backwards, my eyesight had decayed, and in any case I couldn’t see over my belly. I had the wife and the kids and the mortgage – and I wasn’t doing much good for any of them. I was working like billy-o, coming home late, going out early, eating crap and puffing going up the stairs.


My life was a metaphor for twenty years of All Blacks rugby. All the effort, all the trappings of success, but ultimately missing out on the things that really matter.


But here’s the thing – what if it was the other way around?


What if I am the metaphor for the All Blacks? What if their successes and failures were mirroring mine?


It was me.


It was my fault.


I am to blame.


Let the distance from Eden Park in 1987 to Cardiff in 2007 mark the furthest extent of our Fall from Grace. From Champion to Choker; from Grand Final winner to Quarter Final loser; from the omnipotentiality of youth to the grey drear of middle-age.


The return journey, from Cardiff to Eden Park, is the Road to Redemption.

ISBN:
9780473201555
9780473201555
Category:
Family & relationships
Publication Date:
09-05-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Matthew Jansen

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