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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Fitzy’s, fiddlers and film stars..no, we’ll never forget the craic
It won’t just be London Irish fans and members bidding a fond farewell to Sunbury next month when the JCBs start...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Matt Giteau counts his blessings amid sun, sea and rugby stars
There was a fascinating cameo for people watchers at the end of Toulon‘s mighty win over Leinster at Stade Felix Mayol...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: John Bull agenda is robbing England of some top talent
There is much to admire about Stuart Lancaster‘s England but I remain unconvinced by this “Little England” attitude which bars prospective...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Brive and bloody, the short reign of French mavericks
It is 16 years since Brive clashed with Bath in the 1998 Heineken Cup final in Bordeaux and at the time...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Steve Diamond has more polish but can still spot a gem
There was a time Sale boss Steve Diamond might have brooded for a week or more after the disappointing Amlin Cup...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Balm before the storm: England’s 1914 Slam
Exactly 100 years ago the rugby season in England was fast drawing innocently to a close. In those days, with most...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: The sevens wonder of the world still going at 75!
Over the years camp followers have suffered from severe sunburn, hypothermia and trench foot watching the HSBC Rosslyn Park School Sevens...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: 150 years on and rugby’s oldest rivalry just as fierce
They have been knocking lumps out of each other for 150 years now so it was probably fitting that Richmond and...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Brian O’Driscoll was never a victim again after this act of brutality
The thud and thunder of battles won and lost will never recede entirely, nor will those lightning forks of brilliance that lit...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Why Barbados against mighty All Blacks will be no rum do
It’s a bleary-eyed Sunday morning on Aldershot Garrison Common where the icy wind knifes you in two and the freezing rain...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Why we have to keep Georgia on our minds
While the rest of the rugby world would be delighted to avoid playing New Zealand in the World Cup, Georgia will...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Let’s hear it for the new glory boys wearing 15
For decades it was the pin-ups at half-back who always seemed to hold sway, the mercurial playmakers and distributors who were...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s verdict on England: Stuart Lancaster’s tough love is paying off
A little bit of faith, albeit combined with tough love, can go a long way in sport as Stuart Lancaster is...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: The Ultimate Warrior Chris Pennell stands tall in the battle for survival
There was a fascinating and rather poignant moment down at Sixways the other night as Worcester trooped off after losing to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: A belting then BOD became the scourge of England
Brian O’Driscoll has been waging war on England since his Six Nations debut in 2000 and although there have been highs...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Ruan Pienaar keeps faith with Ulster
There might have been a more influential and committed ‘overseas’ signing than Ruan Pienaar in the last 18 seasons since rugby...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher talks Calcutta Cup with Peter Brown
It’s exactly 50 years ago since Peter Brown started taking the sword to the Sassenachs in earnest and, save for Robert...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: George Chuter is the face of professional game
He looks and sounds like a London publican and certainly a job for life awaits on the EastEnders set should luvviedom...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBredan Gallagher: Nutter who made Jim Telfer’s class of ’84 finest of all
Jim Telfer shakes his head in amusement and then caves in completely and laughs uproariously. It happens occasionally: “All really good...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Georgia on my mind as the cosy club stick together
Lacking a degree in applied mathematics I only look at the IRB world rankings once a year and that is in...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: RFU Championship clubs face a vital strategy meeting
Later this month the chairmen and owners of the 12 RFU Championship clubs will lock themselves away in a Birmingham Hotel...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher takes a personal look at the Rugby World in 2013
BEST NEWCOMERS BTSport for their lively match day coverage and excellent Sunday lunchtime round-up show which is the must-watch rugby programme...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher reminisces about some unique times with a hell-raising rugby fanatic
The security guard’s radio crackled around a deserted Twickenham: “Lawrence Of Arabia and a Man Called Horse are leaving the stadium....
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher talks to Nigel Owens about the challenges – and joy – of reffing around the world
It might surprise you to learn – although possibly not – that the pre-eminent referee in world rugby in 2013 has...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher talks to John Carter, the Varsity captain who doesn’t put winning first
John Carter may look like Sebastien Chabal’s younger, wilder, brother and when his battered body can be welded together for 80...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Aussie kids who changed the face of rugby for ever
It’s hard to credit in this era of 12 or 13 Test matches per calendar year by all the major Test...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher on Fiji’s duty to end 100 years of lost opportunities
There is a myth that the full All Blacks have never played in Fiji which is not quite true. In 1913,...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoKeith Wood: Only Ireland’s very best for 80 minutes will suffice
Only five nations on this rugby planet have beaten New Zealand in a Test match in 110 years of trying so...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s autumn verdict: McCaw & co look like world champions elect to me
England gave it a rattle and for once New Zealand seemed to come off second best with the ref but still...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s fallen heroes
1914 06 09 14 Xavier ‘Gastofer’ Mayssonnie (France): The only Toulouse player in France’s first Five nations game. Adjutant 259ème Regiment...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher’s verdict on Wales
And still Wales can’t make the breakthrough the nation demands and expects and their talent warrants. For all their excellence on...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: League legend Ray French never let ‘Cold War’ sour his Union links
Somewhere up in Ray French’s attic, amid thousands of programmes, is a dusty typed letter from the RFU clearing him to...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher remembers the 2003 World Cup triumph with Lawrence Dallaglio
Lawrence Dallaglio wipes his plate clean – the monster ‘Magnifica’ breakfast at Carluccios in Richmond having been routed with lip-smacking relish...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Gregor Townsend still getting to grips with the enigma of French rugby
Gregor Townsend, who did rather more than simply survive five seasons of club rugby in France, has always insisted that one...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Heroic, tragic and downright eccentric, yes rugby has it all
A mate of mine, literary agent David Luxton, has had the brilliant idea of organising the inaugural London Sports Writing Festival...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: The quiet-man keeping that Tigers’ roar loud and clear
A small, bald-headed gent has been taking centre stage at Leicester on match days this autumn but the volume and quantity...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Don’t let the big boys’ Euro row put an end to Treviso dream
While the ERC blazers, club representatives from England and France and TV executives squabble endlessly over the future of a European...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: At last, John Dawes gets his rightful recognition
Why is ‘legendary’ status conferred on some outstanding rugby personalities but denied others? Who decides these things and how? Does the...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Will tickets be banana skin that upsets RWC 2015?
Two years out from the 1987 World Cup the competition didn’t exist, it was just a concept being kicked around by...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher: When Pooler were top dogs, amid the blood, mud and beer
Exactly 30 years ago Pontypool embarked on a season, the likes of which we will never see again in Britain or...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher finds an intriguing cultural exchange occurring at the Stoop
Nick Evans may be on the verge of becoming a British citizen and proud UK passport holder and he has chosen...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 12 years agoBrendan Gallagher gets the inside track on how England’s academies are producing players to progress on the international pathway
Until this June, England – despite its vast player resources – had never won the IRB U20 World Championship or indeed...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 13 years agoBrendan Gallagher: Pomposity overload? Cure it with my minnows
It might surprise you to learn that 131 of the scheduled 184 qualifying games for Rugby World Cup 2015 have already...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 13 years agoBrendan Gallagher on the new England speedster who is giving his club top priority
Marland Yarde just missed the world renowned St Lucia Jazz festival this year – he was otherwise engaged making music for...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 13 years agoBrendan Gallagher: The Puma underdogs must show teeth again
And now the hard work and the pain really begins. Making their debut in the Rugby Championship last season was an...
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Brendan Gallagher
/ 13 years agoBrendan Gallagher meets the modest architect of Wasps greatness
Rob Smith never sought the limelight as a player, coach or indeed guru to some of England‘s most promising youngsters, so...
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