The seeding process for the inaugural European Champions Cup is just as unfathomable as its Heineken Cup predecessor but one thing is for certain, it […]
It’s that time of the year when self-opinionated columnists dispense gongs, and the occasional brickbat, to those who deserve them and this week I’m concentrating […]
Talk about synchronicity. When confirmation of Jonny Wilkinson’s much-touted retirement was filtering through this week I was actually rummaging around my garage looking for a […]
So the European legislators, God bless, have finally caught up with the rugby world and officially recognised Cornwall as being very different to the rest […]
The Murderball challenge is on. Mike Brown, already proud ambassador for Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby, wants to celebrate Harlequins’ coming on board as formal partners […]
Leeds Carnegie Regular season Started with a disappointing defeat to Nottingham but have picked up pace steadily and finishing very strongly with a particularly […]
The Championship play-offs have attracted more than their fair share of criticism over the last four years which I find astounding given the quality rugby, […]
There is much to admire about Stuart Lancaster’s England but I remain unconvinced by this “Little England” attitude which bars prospective England players plying their […]
Over the years camp followers have suffered from severe sunburn, hypothermia and trench foot watching the HSBC Rosslyn Park School Sevens but that all comes […]
The thud and thunder of battles won and lost will never recede entirely, nor will those lightning forks of brilliance that lit up dark afternoons at […]
For decades it was the pin-ups at half-back who always seemed to hold sway, the mercurial playmakers and distributors who were often their team’s main […]
There was a fascinating and rather poignant moment down at Sixways the other night as Worcester trooped off after losing to Leicester in the Premiership, […]
There might have been a more influential and committed ‘overseas’ signing than Ruan Pienaar in the last 18 seasons since rugby turned professional but I […]
Tomasso Allan is a gifted 20-year-old of natural sunny disposition – as befits a young tyro who spends most of his time living the dream in Perpignan, Cape Town and Rome – but the mention of Diego Dominguez produces something akin to a frown.
For the first time in a long while former Wales flanker Richard Parks will be sitting back next month and necking a few beers as he takes in as much Six Nations action as possible.
Jim Telfer shakes his head in amusement and then caves in completely and laughs uproariously. It happens occasionally: “All really good sides need a nutter […]
Freddy ‘Tanky’ Turner captained Scotland one hundred years ago, a Liverpudlian by birth who worked in the family printing business and played cricket for Lancashire’s […]
BEST NEWCOMERS BTSport for their lively match day coverage and excellent Sunday lunchtime round-up show which is the must-watch rugby programme of the week; Isreal […]
The security guard’s radio crackled around a deserted Twickenham: “Lawrence Of Arabia and a Man Called Horse are leaving the stadium. Please see these gentlemen […]
John Carter may look like Sebastien Chabal’s younger, wilder, brother and when his battered body can be welded together for 80 minutes he often plays […]
And still Wales can’t make the breakthrough the nation demands and expects and their talent warrants. For all their excellence on the European scene – […]
Lawrence Dallaglio wipes his plate clean – the monster ‘Magnifica’ breakfast at Carluccios in Richmond having been routed with lip-smacking relish – orders fresh coffee […]