The author and the retired Irish rugby player have collaborated on an interactive rugby book for children. So it’ll be a shame if they fumble our young interviewers’ questions
Paul Howard and Gordon D’Arcy: ‘Football has rules, but rugby has laws because they were drawn up by solicitors charging by the hour’
Howard wasn’t into rugby growing up, far preferring football, but now he watches a lot of it. “I have to say I struggle with the technical aspects of it – the laws, as they call them,” he says. “I’m always reminded that football has rules, but rugby has laws because they were drawn up by solicitors charging by the billable hour. But I really do enjoy it.
This, he explains, is where the idea for the book came from. “Sometimes when you’re with your kids, it’s very much you’re sitting down and you’re telling them the story and they’re curled up and that is a lovely time. Other times there can be a bit of craic with them. And this is definitely a book to have a bit of craic with them.”
We’re all agreed that kids love to get involved in a story and to experience the thrill of the outcome. With that, I explain that we have decided to involve some children in this interview too, and we’ve gathered questions from some of our younger readers to put to the pair.If the ball goes past the try line between the “downer goal” and nobody is on it, why is that not a try?GD: Because somebody has to touch it down for it to be a try.
GD: Back when I would have been playing, the day before is more important than the day of the game. The night before you’re trying to have lots of protein, lots of carbohydrates to get all the glycogen in your muscles all topped up, and then on the day of the game, you eat whatever you want. It doesn’t make that much of a difference. Usually a bit of porridge, maybe some scrambled eggs, a small little bit of pasta, but really six hours out from the game I never really eat that much.
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