Peter Jackson

The real glam rockers back in town

22 January 2023 0 comments

Sir Gareth Edwards and some of his famous old contemporaries strode into the Arms Park where over a period of 14 years from the late […]

Thirsty fans prepare for opening time

22 January 2023 0 comments

The whiff of the Six Nations is blowing on the wind, its imminent arrival heralded by proclamations in Dublin and Cardiff reassuring the thirsty that […]

McConnochie heads ‘home’

22 January 2023 0 comments

Ruaridh McConnochie says that it has been a ‘childhood dream’ to play for Scotland. In that event, some may find it not unreasonable to ask […]

Playing rugby with style, class and fun

15 January 2023 0 comments

David Duckham, who has died at the age of 76, will be remembered as one of the all-time greats of the game PETER JACKSON Star […]

From the Mad Giraffe to Zatopek’s protege

8 January 2023 0 comments

PETER JACKSON And so to the New Year list with a difference, Honours and Dishonours in roughly equal measure thereby ensuring inclusivity on a global […]

Sign of the times may cause a hulabaloo

31 December 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Any day now, tradesmen will move into six of Europe’s most famous stadia bearing luminous clocks designed […]

Sad to hear laughter over Traore incident

31 December 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON WHEN those at the ‘Secret Santa’ party hosted by the Benetton squad laughed at Cherif Traore unwrapping an over-ripe banana, they did more […]

Coach who put heart and soul into north

23 December 2022 3 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Steve Borthwick’s anointment revives England’s tradition of northern head coaches, the most colourful of whom began his […]

Cole’s 15 years at the workface

23 December 2022 0 comments

By Peter Jackson Dan Cole’s 300 matches for Leicester took him a few weeks longer than 15 years to compile. Few during the professional era […]

Imitation games are so sad for real fans

23 December 2022 1 comment

By Peter Jackson Once upon a time, the Heineken Cup was so good that there were weekends when it surpassed the Six Nations as a […]

It’s time to look at a new route to Europe

18 December 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW ONE Sunday afternoon in Watford 20 years ago, Saracens hosted a match designed to herald the advent […]

Laporte does not forgive – or forget

18 December 2022 0 comments

Peter Jackson Once upon a time, during the early stages of his seven-year reign as France head coach, Bernard Laporte strode out of the dressing-room […]

Wales simply have to take Rowlands to the World Cup

11 December 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Those who drew up the four top seedings for the World Cup defied most perceived logic by […]

So where have all the Welsh coaches gone?

11 December 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON By the time Warren Gatland’s second coming runs its contractual course, Wales will have gone 20 whole years without a Welshman in charge. […]

On a wing but without a prayer

4 December 2022 0 comments

Peter Jackson finds little to cheer for the speed merchants when it comes to checking the stats from the Autumn Series As if enough questions […]

No change as Pivac is next in the firing line

4 December 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW At home on Lake Wanaka half a world away from his former employers, Sir Steve Hansen knows […]

Classy All Blacks show how it should be done

4 December 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON Two days before they began their European tour by taking Wales to the cleaners, eight All Blacks turned up at a junior club […]

Roberts goes in hard, like he always did

27 November 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Some ex-internationals looking to reinvent themselves as pundits struggle because they fail to recognise that criticising former […]

Will’s way: This is how you do it, Jase

27 November 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Scoring machine: Will Stuart goes over against New Zealand PICTURE: Getty Images As befitting a man in his position, Jason Leonard slogged his […]

Gone for a Burton! Rugby is struggling for a future

27 November 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Pontrhydyfen is a village in the Afan Valley where a local boy failed to realise his rugby dream and became a Hollywood superstar […]

Wales and Cornish Pirates prop Craig Mitchell retires

After that shambles, AWJ must surely start

20 November 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Hand up for selection: Alun Wyn Jones PICTURE: Getty Images By making an almighty mess of Wales, […]

John Ryan, the Wales coach who lost his stars to rugby league

20 November 2022 0 comments

John Ryan could have been forgiven had he likened coaching the Wales rugby team of the late Eighties to steering Titanic after the iceberg. His […]

It’s all a California dream for Nonu, 40

20 November 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON Had its release been better timed, a news item from Southern California would have avoided burial beneath the avalanche of material generated by […]

Time to stop hectoring ref

20 November 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON World Rugby, having acted swiftly to punish Rassie Erasmus for his latest video refereeing rant, the governing body must surely be examining another […]

How Kevin kept 1991 pioneers on right track

13 November 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW KEVIN O’Brien grew up within walking distance of Cardiff docks, round the corner from the street where […]

Sinfield shows he’s in a class of his own

13 November 2022 2 comments

PETER JACKSON THERE are an elite group of impressive men involved in English rugby and then there is Kevin Sinfield, the former Great Britain superstar […]

No surprise to see more trouble

13 November 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON ANOTHER match at the world’s biggest pub and another outbreak of crowd trouble, this one over a fight between two younger men which […]

Irish referee Brace kept Itoje in line

13 November 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON MARO Itoje had a lot to say for himself during England’s non-performance against Argentina last Sunday. His verbosity extended to giving Andrew Brace […]

When Ray set records back in the glory days

6 November 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Ray Glastonbury spent most of his sporting life unaware that he belonged to a squadron of wings […]

England’s awkward encounter

6 November 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON NO Greek team can have borne quite as many gifts to a World Cup as their Rugby League lads brought to Bramall Lane […]

One final chance for AWJ to take out ABs

30 October 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Alun Wyn Jones will take his last scheduled crack at the All Blacks on Saturday from the […]

Casualty list which just keeps growing and growing

30 October 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON The autumn series kicks with almost 40 missing in action, the majority of whom have been declared unfit for purpose as opposed to […]

A player’s parents should be the limit

30 October 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON Jack Dempsey’s switch of allegiance from Australia to Scotland opens the way for a whole host of international players to hop from country […]

A day in history which will never be repeated

23 October 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW A dwindling band of noble old-age pensioners will be reunited next week for an event held every […]

Wasps play their part and then disappear

23 October 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE numbers – 70, 71, 76, 80, 85 – could be misconstrued as a rising tide of support for Boris Johnson’s absurd reinstatement […]

The man who kept Wasps on the road

16 October 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Malcolm Sinclair holds the distinction of being Wasps’ first full-time professional, an appointment made as the indirect […]

Cardiff’s faithful still being kept in the dark

16 October 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON YET another Chancellor of the Exchequer has been and gone and still not a peep from Cardiff Rugby Club on its investigation into […]

Stars of the Seventies kept us all informed

9 October 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW Even now, five decades after their time ran out, the most celebrated European team of the amateur […]

Why are we still waiting for verdicts?

9 October 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON When the RFU launched an inquiry into the violent nature of their Five Nations match in Cardiff in 1989, they announced their verdict […]

Thompson’s terrible tale

9 October 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON In the occasionally harrowing BBC2 documentary, Head On: Rugby, Dementia and Me, Steve Thompson spoke with brutal candour, never more so than on […]

How losing a finger didn’t stop Bennett

2 October 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW At the last count, Alexander Zverev’s tennis earnings had topped $32 million, enough to place him comfortably […]

Raynal is my referee of the year

2 October 2022 0 comments

By Peter Jackson Mathieu Raynal ought by now to have turned the Referee of the Year award into a foregone conclusion. He has since spelt […]

The Butler did it! Day Eddie was in the dock

25 September 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW AT the crack of dawn on Thursday, September 6, 2001, the highest-powered disciplinary tribunal ever assembled in […]

Room, finally, for Billy

25 September 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON At the first post-Covid dinner staged by the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in Cardiff the other night, Wales got around at long […]

Time for the game to credit Littlejohn

25 September 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON MAYBE one day those responsible for deeming who is worthy of World Rugby’s Hall of Fame and who is not, will consider Dick […]

Eight brothers who cared for one game

18 September 2022 0 comments

PETER JACKSON THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW The eight sons of Arthur Williams from Taff’s Well shall forever hold a unique place in rugby […]

Why Raynal was right to call out Aussie time wasting

18 September 2022 1 comment

PETER JACKSON MATHIEU Raynal has been called many names over the Bledisloe Cup denouement in Melbourne on Thursday night, most of them grossly unsuitable for […]