Best Years of Our Lives; Author: Wilson, Paul; Hardback; Book

Author: Wilson, Paul
Hardback; Book; 60 B&w and 14 Colour Illustrations
223 pages
Published: November 1996
Mainstream Publishing
ISBN: 1851587756
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Subtitled 'Wigan's Rise from Second Division to Super League', this book charts the club's meteoric rise from fall guys to the most feared side in the land and describes how, in just seven years, the league's laughing stock rose to organise and win the first World Cup Challenge between the English and Australian champions.Wigan's domination of rugby is remarkable since in the early 1980s the club almost went bust. Charting Wigan's rise to becoming the most feared side in the land, this work traces one of sports most remarkable recoveries and reveals how a Lancashire mining town gave birth to a sporting phenomenon.