The French rugby club 4,300km from Paris

The French rugby club 4,300km from Paris The ‘playing field’ was doing well to be described as such. Strewn with stones and dotted with grazing horses, the patch in the…

Top 14 2020-21 Season Preview

Top 14 2020-21 Season Preview There is a reckoning coming in the Top 14, due to kick off with Stade Francais versus Bordeaux on 4 September. And it’s not just…

Mathieu Bastareaud

Roaring success, 2017 “This photo (the main image above) is from a Top 14 semi-final against La Rochelle, 
at the Vélodrome stadium in Marseille,” says Mathieu Bastareaud. “It was not…

How France won the RWC 2023 vote

How France won the RWC 2023 vote IT LOOKED like it was in the bag. On 31 October 2017, the Rugby World Cup Limited (RWCL) Board unanimously recommended that South…