- Video
-
Club Roar
Captured a great grassroots sporting moment? We want to see it!Content Collections
The Roar Community
- Join
- Login
Spiro Zavos is recognised as one of the world’s most influential rugby writers. His column on Tuesday in The Sydney Morning Herald during the rugby season has run for more than twenty years. He also writes a weekly sports column for The Dompost, a leading New Zealand newspaper. His trenchant analysis, especially on rugby matters, has made his columns must-read institutions all over the world.
During the Lions tour of New Zealand in 2005 Sir Clive Woodward made a special arrangement to meet and chat with Zavos. The Lions coach said he’d read the Zavos column for years, from the time he lived in Sydney, and he wanted to meet its author. Zavos has written ten books, several of them award-winners, on politics, fiction and rugby, including How To Watch A Game of Rugby, which has been reprinted twice since its publication in 2005.
He played one game of first class cricket for Wellington against England, with the dubious honour of lasting long enough as an opener to face only Freddie Truman and Frank Tyson in his short stays at the crease.