Nigel Owens: The Final Whistle: The long-awaited sequel to his bestselling autobiography!

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Audible vanta una delle più vaste selezioni al mondo di audiolibri, podcast e serie originali e ti offre i primi 30 giorni gratuiti. With his contract with the Welsh Rugby Union having come to an end in 2020, he is free to reveal all about his career since his previous autobiography, 'Half Time', to speak his mind on various issues and to give the full story of his last Rugby World Cup in 2019. He came out as gay in 2007, and has spoken about his difficulties with his sexuality, his experience of living with bulimia nervosa and attempting suicide.

After a run of decisions against the police they left the pitch in a huff and had to be talked into finishing the game by being threatened with eviction from the league. But not only did he survive his suicide attempt but positively thrived, officiating at four World Cups, taking charge of more Six Nations games than anyone else, blowing the whistle at seven European Cup Finals and presiding over some of the best games of rugby ever played, such as the high-octane try-fest that was the New Zealand victory over South Africa in Johannesburg in 2013.

Coupled, of course, with those epic on-pitch lectures to players which ended up becoming social media sensations. It’s something many people clearly share, that feeling that here is someone with no side to him, as they say: an open book, a referee who has been loved by players even when they’ve been on the losing side. Add to that the hundreds of thousands of air miles, the need to be in physical nick at least as good as the players on the pitch and one gets a picture of the rigours of refereeing. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. Had it not been for the heat sensors of a police helicopter he might have died alone that night on Mynydd-y-Ddraenen, the appropriately named Mountain of Thorns.

He is the author of Barry John: The George Best of Rugby (Mainstream Publishing, 2000) and Gary Speed Remembered (Andre Deutsch Ltd, 2012).Nigel Owens has been in charge of games at all levels of course, from slosh-in-the-mud grassroots games to the top of the tree, being the World Cup final.