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Peter Jackson
/ 8 years agoJohnny lost to Wales because of his colour
Halifax record-breaker: Cardiff’s Johnny Freeman They carried Johnny Freeman from St. Mary’s church last week and out of what used to...
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Peter Jackson
/ 8 years agoFixtures putting players in impossible position
WHEN Perpignan reached the 2009 Top 14 final, Perry Freshwater made a stand. The England prop put club before country and...
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Peter Jackson
/ 8 years agoPeter Jackson: How Leigh Halfpenny went from hero to zero offers in less than six months
Six months ago Leigh Halfpenny found himself under a veritable bombardment of offers on an ever-escalating scale over his next move....
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoJacko column: Warburton an invaluable role model for all
By Peter Jackson No matter what happens from now on, nothing will stop Sam Warburton taking up permanent residence in that...
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Columnists
/ 8 years agoGarces moved beyond see-no-evil culture when it comes to Kiwi misdemeanours
By Peter Jackson Sonny Bill Williams probably thought he would get away with it just as generations of All Blacks had...
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Peter Jackson
/ 8 years agoPeter Jackson: McGeechan warned of Lions meltdown 24 years ago
Long before they knighted him for services to the game, Sir Ian McGeechan raised an issue serious enough to threaten the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Size didn’t matter in 1971, just pure ability
When they line up for the first Test, the Lions‘ backs will be three inches taller on average than their historic...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Boks’ RWC triumph hung on a shirtsleeve
There is an old adage in journalism that news is not necessarily when it happens but when someone digs it out....
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoBoks’ RWC triumph hung on a shirtsleeve
There is an old adage in journalism that news is not necessarily when it happens but when someone digs it out....
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoRhodri understood the passion of sport in Wales
RHODRI Morgan’s Welsh ancestors left an indelible mark on the sporting life of the USA long before the man himself got...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Revitalised Broncos are bucking the trend
The Deri Broncos gave up the ghost when the last of them bolted and left the historic village club without a...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Mr Reliable, but Dan is Mr Forgotten for Wales
There are two reasons why Dan Evans stands out in any crowd of players. He never misses a match because his...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Whitcombe dynasty now propping up England
When he left Cardiff before the Second World War, Frank Whitcombe could have had no idea he would be creating a...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Sorry Scots, but Gatland has gone for power again
Scotland now has exactly as many Lions as the sum total of Conservative and Labour Members of Parliament – two. Even...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Dylan must hope Lions history isn’t repeated
The Lions leave the England captain at home, pick his Irish counterpart instead for the series in New Zealand and end...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoDylan must hope Lions history isn’t repeated
Not counting his chickens: England captain Dylan Hartley PICTURE: Getty Images The Lions leave the England captain at home, pick his...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoParry Jones spotted Duggan’s surrender to battle fatigue
THE passing of broadcaster David Parry Jones, aged 83, evokes memories of Wales- Ireland in 1975, a unique match in that...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoHandsome Mike had some ugly moments
MIKE PHILLIPS has been called many things in his time as befitting one who often dealt in the outrageous on and...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: JPR’s a Wales legend but was Price even better?
Anniversaries have been all the rage of late, from the 25th of England‘s last Grand Slam double under Will Carling to...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoJPR’s a Wales legend but was Price even better?
Anniversaries have been all the rage of late, from the 25th of England’s last Grand Slam double under Will Carling to...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoIrish give Champions Cup a six-figure boost…
NOWthat the Irish have brought the crowds back to the Champions Cup, the semi-finals are likely to reach 100,000 for the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years ago… Bath rejoice at seven-figure loss
‘BATHRugby’, the headline on the club’s website proclaimed, ‘announces improved financial performance for the 2015-16 financial year.’ At face value it...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Tale of two rugby cities could not be starker
On a wintry Friday night by the Clyde, Glasgow Warriors and Newport Gwent Dragons played out a 16-all draw. So few...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Warren so wrong on Sam’s loss as skipper
Warren Gatland has found the oldest scapegoat under the sun for Sam Warburton losing the Wales captaincy before their worst Six...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Unthinkable demise of Stade Francais after Mad Max’s razzmatazz
When Max Guazzini bowed out six years ago, Stade Francais had good reason to feel as safe as the Central European...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: How Wales are missing Henson’s abiding class
As Wales prepare to salvage what’s left of the Six Nations, their best midfield player will be otherwise engaged in a...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Kieran Read leads fight against rise of the machines
Kieran Read stands out in a land of giants for a reason other than his status as leader of the best...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: This Scotland team are a serious item
Scotland reaffirmed their status as title contenders yesterday by treating the faithful to something they had not witnessed for a long...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: No excuses, Rob, you did get it wrong over Moriarty
During the wash-up over the raging tidal wave of emotions unleashed in Cardiff all week, Wales found it necessary to deny...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Eddie Jones finds redemption in Welsh Colditz
Eddie Jones had taken a long time to reacquaint himself with Cardiff since the Wallabies gave him the last rites for...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: This farewell to a Bok hero was fit for a king
They carried his oak coffin out of Loftus Versveld a few minutes before three o’clock on Friday afternoon at the end...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Stern Vern allows himself a smile as Scotland box clever
Murrayfield rejoiced yesterday at catching a glimpse of a moment even more truly historic than the Grand Old Championship‘s first bonus...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Open or shut case at Millennium Stadium
Just as the United Nations have America and the Mexican wall on their agenda, so the Six Nations have had Wales...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Like it or not George, facts are facts!
George North put his two big feet into the concussion debate the other day in sneering contempt of the media over...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Warburton’s too good to be left in the cold for long
In hindsight, Sam Warburton might have seen the writing on the wall as well as everywhere else on the day of...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: The day Big Bad Jim forgot his old pals act
The years keep rolling by but when it comes to dispensing their own brand of rough justice, a pair of Welsh...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: I see a man on a tractor roaring in to lead Lions
Now 2017 has dawned, no New Year would be complete without a few gongs inspired by the events of the old...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Candid Phil Steele shares his demons to help others
Phil Steele has earned himself a rewarding reputation as a technical-zone television reporter and after-dinner speaker, a veritable bundle of laughs....
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Billy Boston’s old club being left for dead by the Union
The world’s first multi-racial rugby club, the one in Cardiff docks made famous by Billy Boston, is fighting for its life....
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoWelsh team is hidden behind wall of silence
There used to be a time when the attendance at a Wales practice match outnumbered those at most club matches across...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoWarren Gatland’s Lions job hits Welsh rebuilding
In December 2013, at the height of the Welsh war when the four regions had been driven towards eloping to the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoHelp! We’re all being overrun by the imports
By PETER JACKSON Within the next 12 months Ireland will be free to cap several more nomadic New Zealanders. Scotland will...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson column: It’s high time someone at the WRU apologised
No matter how often they fail against the big three, Team Wales never fail to trot out the same trite excuses....
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Clowns? No the joke’s on Wales when Aussies call
Wales take their annual autumn shot at the Wallabies next Saturday, driven by the assumption that they cannot go on missing...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Gatland’s Law pays no heed to loyalty
The Welsh Rugby Union really ought to write a thankyou letter to those nice people who run the big English clubs,...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Limited space? All Blacks find acres of it
One day last February after an unusually turgid round of Six Nations matches, Warren Gatland made a few observations of a...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: RPA must act over this concussion blackout
Gerry Gilpin and Ben Herring are poles apart – the former on the outer rim of Western Europe in Belfast, the...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Tom Prydie return has reminded us of fame’s fickle nature
Tom Prydie came out of the shadows on Friday night after the longest ten months of his turbulent rugby life. As...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson: Try the new Premiership game: Spot an Englishman!
When Newcastle and Leicester squared up at Kingston Park last Sunday, they set a record of sorts, one that appeared to...
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Peter Jackson
/ 9 years agoPeter Jackson column: The Cardiff flier forced to abandon his dream
Billy Boston now has a life-sized statue of his very own in Wigan, a bronze creation for which the town clubbed...












