The Biggar Picture - My Life in Rugby

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Hunangofiant dadlennol a gafaelgar un o faswyr gorau Cymru ar y maes rygbi, Dan Biggar. Ag yntau bellach yn medru edrych yn ôl ar bymtheg mlynedd a mwy o fod ar frig y gamp yn rhyngwladol, mae The Biggar Picture yn gofnod gafaelgar, gan un o gymeriadau amlycaf y gêm.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

The Biggar Picture is the gripping and revealing autobiography from Wales's most-decorated Welsh No. 10 of all time, Dan Biggar. Now in a position where he can look back on fifteen years at the very pinnacle of test rugby, The Biggar Picture is a frank, illuminating and gripping account, from one of the sport's most compelling figures.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Dan Biggar was born in Morriston, Swansea, and his career began in the Welsh Premiership for his hometown team. He made his Ospreys debut as an eighteen year-old and became the youngest player ever to play in 100 games for the Ospreys. Since then he has played for the English Premiership side Northampton and for French heavyweights Toulon. Dan has been at the heart of Welsh rugby’s most iconic moments of the past decade, including a Grand Slam, two Six Nations Championships, a record victory over England, a World Cup semi-final, and a historic victory on South African soil. He’s toured twice with the British and Irish Lions and started every test in the 2021 series. In 2015, Biggar won the BBC Cymru Sports Personality of the Year Award. The Biggar Picture is his first autobiography. Ross Harries is an experienced broadcaster and is regularly seen presenting rugby coverage on the BBC, BT Sport, Premier Sports, Channel 4 and Amazon Prime. He presented the BBC’s Scrum V for a decade. Ross is also an award-nominated author of Centre Stage: My Life In Rugby (autobiography of Jamie Roberts), Behind the Dragon (a complete oral history of Welsh rugby) and Bomb , the autobiography of Wales centurion Adam Jones.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

‘I have no regrets. Most rugby players give up when their bodies do. For me it was more in the mind. As much as my limbs were beginning to creak and groan, it was the mental pressure that weighed the heaviest. That’s unique to playing ten in Wales. Whether you’re the captain or not, you carry the biggest burden. You call the plays, you direct the players and you live and die by the performance of the team. When I reflect on it all, I can say without any doubt that I gave it everything.’ There are few more iconic jerseys than that of the Welsh number ten. Worn by such legendary figures as Barry John, Phil Bennett and Jonathan Davies, it’s a garment woven into the tapestry of rugby folklore. Its legacy casts a long shadow from which it can be difficult to emerge. But one player has done so triumphantly, through a combination of talent, determination and bloody-minded resilience: Dan Biggar, the most-capped Welsh 10 in the nation’s history. On the pitch, Biggar is the ultimate competitor. His playing style – brash, aggressive and forthright – and his conduct – arguing with referees and remonstrating with opponents – has earned him censure. Yet, off the pitch, he is one of the most grounded ambassadors of the sport. For the first time, Dan offers a rare insight into this contradiction at the heart of his nature and talks candidly of the pow er struggles within Wales’s most successful ever squad. He explores his working relationships with the ‘complex’ Warren Gatland, the ‘genius’ Shaun Edwards, and the ‘underrated’ Wayne Pivac, and also addresses the crippling weight of expectation suffered by all Welsh outside halves. He examines the criticism he faced for not ‘fitting the mould’, and takes us into the mindset of a worldclass goalkicker. In the definitive memoir of his life and career, Dan also bares his innermost emotions, from the joy of captaining Wales to victory in South Africa, through Grand Slam glory and World Cup woe, to the devastation of losing his mother just weeks before becoming the Lions number 10. He opens the changing room door on some of rugby’s most compelling episodes – from the threatened strike action that could have bankrupted the game, to the proposed club merger that nearly derailed a Grand Slam campaign.