abstract:The Bear Pit is a 2000 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. It was the seventeenth book featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone and involves the assassination of the State Premier by a sniper in the lead up to the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Perpignan's Stade Aime Giral is a real bearpit down by the Mediterranean in French Catalonia and despite taking an early lead Leicester soon found themselves up against it.
But Johnson said the decision to hand the captaincy to the experienced Tindall was not influenced by the bear-pit atmosphere expected at the world-renowned Millennium Stadium.