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Posted 760 days ago
Martin johnson had warned about premature talk of a Six Nations Grand Slam. The England manager knew only too well that playing Ireland in Dublin in the final round would be a sizeable obstacle in his side’s bid for a clean sweep – but no one predicted that the men in green would derail the chariot in quite such spectacular…
Posted 760 days ago
THE BIGGEST compliment anyone can pay Tom Wood is that when Tom Croft returned from injury towards the end of the Six Nations, it was Wood and not the Leicester man who was picked for the Grand Slam decider against Ireland.
Leaving Croft out of the England side even three months ago would have been unthinkable and especially for an uncapped…
Posted 767 days ago
The Six Nations champion talks fireworks, genies and Jay-Z with Bea Asprey…
RUGBY WORLD: Who did you share a room with during the Six Nations?
Ben Youngs: Tom Croft. We get on great but he breathes really heavily when he sleeps. And his hair always looks the same, which annoys me! Before he came back from injury I was rooming by myself.…
Posted 769 days ago
The first thing my dad did on arriving in Kingston, Surrey, from America when I was five was settle me into a rugby club. I loved my time playing at KCS Old Boys. It was a great group of friends; we had a great vibe and a huge bond. I didn’t want to go out in the rain sometimes so my mum or dad had to drag me, but once there I loved it.
Posted 769 days ago
Sevens is a great way to stay rugby-fit over the summer, writes Brett Davison, England Sevens physio and strength & conditioning coach. A more specialised sort of fitness is required to play this version of the game, but it’s different, great fun to play with your friends, and will keep you in peak condition.
After the end of the 15s season,…
Posted 771 days ago
The British Sports Book Awards, encompassing the best in British and Irish sports literature over the past 12 months, take place in London on 9 May. Six titles are competing for the rugby gong…
The Grudge – Tom English
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Tom English’s stunning account of the politically charged tensions surrounding the 1990 Calcutta Cup, when the Scots sent England packing in…
Posted 771 days ago
Katie Field questions the future of a competition which has lost its focal point…
THE victory celebrations were loud and long, but will Gloucester’s 34-7 win over Newcastle in this spring’s LV= Cup final be the last of its kind for an English Premiership club?
Cup final day used to be the climax of the club season in England, but the cup…
Posted 782 days ago
US RUGBY players think of ourselves as entertainers and, after the two big earthquakes in New Zealand, that’s what I think we go back to when we try to lift our community.
It’s fair to say that we felt pretty powerless after the earthquakes, especially the recent one which caused such devastation in Christchurch and claimed so many lives.
You don’t know…
Posted 782 days ago
Things change quickly in rugby, just ask Ryan Jones. Back in November he had “the worst 20 minutes of my rugby career”. First he was responsible for conceding the late penalty that allowed Fiji to draw 16-16 with Wales at the Millennium Stadium. Then, after he had trudged into the changing room, Warren Gatland announced that Matthew Rees would lead…
Posted 784 days ago
THE EDINBURGH school fended off challenges from far and wide to earn their first-ever Team of the Month award for their terrific run in the Brewin Dolphin Scottish Schools Cup.
Stewart’s Melville got to their third consecutive final and reversed last year’s loss against Edinburgh Academy by beating their capital city rivals 19-10 in front of a raucous 4,000 crowd at…
