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Brendan Gallagher
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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
/ 13 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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