Moment In Time

Exeter’s back to back delight

23 July 2023 0 comments

MOMENT IN TIME: EXETER, NATIONAL LEAGUE 3 CHAMPIONS 1996-97 SPECIAL REPORT BY NEIL FISSLER Exeter had just achieved one promotion from Courage League Division 4 and, […]

Kids bring joy to Geordie land

16 July 2023 0 comments

MOMENT IN TIME NEWCASTLE FALCONS, 2001 TETLEY BITTER CUP WINNERS BY NEIL FISSLER IT was once suggested that you don’t win anything with kids and […]

No stopping the Baa-Baas’ game

31 December 2022 0 comments

MOMENT IN TIME SPECIAL REPORT BY NEIL FISSLER LEICESTER vs THE BARBARIANS, 1973 Where are they now? BACK ROW Chalky White: Dubbed the best coach […]

Quins double up at Twickenham

23 December 2022 1 comment

Moment in time: Harlequins, 1988 John Player Cup and Middlesex Sevens winners BY NEIL FISSLER Harlequins were without a win over Bristol in 15 years, […]

Moment in Time: Psycho front row set platform for Sale’s return to top flight

7 August 2022 0 comments

Sale – Courage League 2 Champions 1993/94 Sale had been out of the top flight for six seasons after being relegated at the end of […]

We had plenty of with none of the success but razzmatazz

31 July 2022 1 comment

Moment In Time: Leicester Tigers Courage National League One Champions 1988 Neil Fissler talks to Malcolm Foulkes-Arnold Fireworks and confetti greeted Leicester Tigers, becoming the […]

Visionary Alf Wyman was beaten to the punch

15 August 2021 0 comments

COVENTRY fixture secretary Alf Wyman was a rugby visionary, well before his time in many respects as a strong advocate of sponsorship and league rugby. […]

Moment in Time: England trailblazers of 1991 changed women’s game

1 August 2021 0 comments

Neil Fissler tracks down the England Women’s team who reached the final of the 1991 Rugby World Cup

Moment in Time: Oxford University beat South Africa in 1969

12 September 2014 1 comment

South Africa’s 1969-1970 tour to Great Britain and Ireland remains to this day one of the most controversial in the history of rugby union. South […]

Moment in Time – the Cross Code Challenges of 1996

5 September 2014 0 comments

One hundred years of animosity and bad blood were about to be forgotten and an attempt made to answer the age old question which was […]

Moment in Time: the 2006 Challenge Cup final

29 August 2014 23 comments

Cup finals are often tight, tense affairs decided by a mistake or controversial penalty. But not on this particular occasion as two sides packed with […]

Moment in Time: the 1967 County Championship final

22 August 2014 0 comments

Surrey were the draw specialists of 1967 County Championship rugby so it is no surprise that they were forced to share the title with Durham. […]

Moment in Time: Leicester and their triumph at Thomond Park

15 August 2014 0 comments

It was deemed the impossible task. Nobody had ever beaten Munster in a Heineken Cup tie at their Thomond Park fortress – a run that […]

Moment in Time: The day London Irish avoided relegation

8 August 2014 0 comments

It would be no exaggeration to say that the future of London Irish was at stake. Powergen Cup winners and fourth in the Zurich Premiership […]

Moment in Time: Sharks show class to rip chunks out of the Tigers

2 September 2013 1 comment

Leicester and Wasps had dominated English rugby for seven years. The Tigers, under Dean Richards, had claimed four consecutive league titles between 1999 and 2002, […]

Sanderson and his Quins have a day to remember

26 August 2013 1 comment

This was a remarkable cup final victory on so many levels. For starters, Harlequins had endured a shocking Premiership campaign, winning just two of their […]

Moment in Time: Walder flies in under the radar to lift Falcons

18 August 2013 0 comments

Little did supporters of Newcastle Falcons realise it at the time, but this supremely riotous Twickenham cup final would represent the high water mark of […]

Moment in Time: Day it all came right for the Cherry and Whites

12 August 2013 0 comments

Whether they like it or not, Gloucester’s 2002-3 campaign will always be defined by two stunning defeats: the 6-33 reverse at Munster, which they still […]

Moment in Time: Elvis is the hero as Bath battle back to avoid drop

29 July 2013 3 comments

Ten years ago, Bath Rugby stood on the precipice. A hostile takeover bid from Bristol owner Malcolm Pearce had driven supporters of both clubs to […]

Playing on, survivors of the Andean miracle

4 January 2013 0 comments

SUNDAY December 13, forty years ago, was the moment that a team of rugby players, who had been forced to the very limits of endurance, […]

Moment in Time: Gloucester and the 2003 Powergen Cup Final

5 September 2012 0 comments

It is perhaps typical of Gloucester’s ill-fortune down the years that their 2002-3 campaign is best remembered for two complete and utter disasters: the humiliating […]

Moment in Time: Saracens and the 1998 Tetley Bitter Cup final

27 August 2012 0 comments

Emotion is an oft-used word in rugby, but this is a day that sticks in the minds of Saracens people on many counts. For starters, […]

Moment in Time: Newcastle and the 2001 Tetley’s Bitter Cup final

20 August 2012 0 comments

Sensational game, sensational finish. Widely considered to be one of the best cup finals of all time, two star-studded teams went at it from first […]

Moment in Time: Sale Sharks and the 2002 Parker Pen Shield

14 August 2012 0 comments

Lift-off for Sale Sharks. This was the day when chairman Brian Kennedy’s vision of creating a powerhouse team in the north-west of England finally came […]

Moment in Time: Northampton Saints and the 2000 Heineken Cup final

6 August 2012 0 comments

Few people had rated Northampton’s chances of lifting the Heineken Cup. Still fewer gave them a prayer after they had lost their second Pool match […]

Moment in Time: London Wasps and 2004 Heineken Cup Semi Final

24 July 2012 0 comments

Stunning game. Truly stunning result. Quite simply, this Anglo-Irish showdown in Dublin was one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, Heineken matches of all […]

Moment in Time: Worcester Warriors and the 2004 Premiership promotion game

20 July 2012 1 comment

It was Boy’s Own stuff. Twelve years earlier, Worcester had been a modest rugby club minding its own business in the backwaters of Midlands Two […]

Moment in Time: London Irish and the 2002 Powergen Cup final

10 July 2012 0 comments

London Irish had been written off as relegation fodder at the start of season 2001-2. They were a team without stars. Some talented players, yes, […]

Moment in Time: Harlequins and the 2004 Challenge Cup Final

3 July 2012 0 comments

They enjoy dramatic finishes at Harlequins. And there was none more thrilling than the 2004 Parker Pen Cup final at Reading, where for all the […]

Moment in Time: Birmingham and the 2004 Powergen Cup quarter-final

26 June 2012 1 comment

No one gave Pertemps Bees a prayer before this Powergen Cup quarter-final. Wasps, the English champions, were well on course to defend their title and […]

Moment in time: Leicester and the 2002 Heineken Cup final

21 June 2012 0 comments

Leicester Tigers arrived at the iconic home of Welsh rugby seeking to complete an historic league and Heineken Cup ‘double-double’. A fortnight earlier, Dean Richards’ […]