Remember, remember the 5th of November. Lancaster, Burgess and flop? Okay, I’m being glib, but I feel for Sam Burgess. He didn’t ask to become the most-hyped league convert in…
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Rugby World Cup 2015: Alternative Awards
Philanthropy award of the World Cup – Sonny Bill Williams Good old Sonny Bill. In a career where he has been accused of putting his own ambitions before the team,…
Twickenham to host NFL games
The RFU have announced a joint venture with the NFL to host a minimum of three regular season games at Twickenham Stadium over a three-year period. While figures haven’t been…
Steffon Armitage speaks out on England exclusion
Toulon openside Steffon Armitage talks his England exclusion, Toulon's season and the Champions Cup
Five talking points from the World Cup final
As New Zealand are crowned world champions for a record third time, Rugby World looks at the big questions to come out of RWC 2015
Mike Ford: Sam Burgess to stay at Bath
Ford says Burgess will continue to play rugby union amid talks that he is considering a return to play for his former rugby league side South Sydney Rabbitohs.
Pumas vintage has matured since England tour of 2013
By Adam Hathaway Back in the summer of 2013 those of us not involved in the hoopla surrounding the British & Lions tour to Australia ventured to Argentina to see…
Skinstad: Boks have reasons for optimism
Even though the Springboks bowed out in heroic, agonising circumstances to the All Blacks in the World Cup semi-final last weekend, their 2007 World Cup winning backrow, Bobby Skinstad, says…
For the Northern Hemisphere, it’s been a tournament of what-ifs
By Will Macpherson Bear with me here: I have never seen my Facebook newsfeed look quite like it. First, the evening of Saturday October 3: England go out of the…
England’s 23-man squad for the 2016 Six Nations
Whoever is in charge of England when the Christmas decorations come down has to pick an EPS squad for the Six Nations and all talk of the 2019 World Cup…