O’Gara story a tale of growth and honesty

THERE WAS a time when rugby union autobiographies were pretty few and far between, and with good reason.

Administrators were quite willing to brandish a rulebook which could get players banished on the grounds of professionalism and profiting from the sport if they brought out a memoir.

Since the advent of recognised professionalism within rugby, however, there have been a fair scatter of My Stories, though some have been better than others.