Lewis Mad Dog Moody has been a familiar face in English rugby for fifteen successful & at times painful years. The former Leicester & now Bath flanker has seen & done it all in a sport that has changed beyond recognition from his first forays into the sport to the huge spectacle that rugby & especially test match rugby has become. Known for his near-suicidal fashion of playing the game Moody has achieved as much as anyone in the history of the sport from league cup & European honours with an iconic Leicester Tigers team alongside the likes of Martin Johnson & Neil Back to a 2003 World Cup winners medal & an MBE when still a young man. A great deal of heartbreak would follow
- pain illness self-doubt & dark days in the four years before the next World Cup campaign that saw Moody & England fall in the 2007 final but he re-emerged to finally captain his country to a third World Cup campaign in 2011. Mad Dog
- An Englishman is the story warts & all of one of the most-loved & respected British sporting figures; a story that allows the reader into the inner sanctum of a top rugby stars life from the early days of student & rugby dressing room mayhem to the latter years of dedication to the cause & utter professionalism against all odds. You may think some of Lewis Moodys adventures are well-known. You would be wrong. In this searingly honest autobiography the original Mad Dog lays himself bare & along the way takes you on an incredible journey that will make you laugh cry & understand what it takes to construct a career as successful as Lewis Moodys.