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RWC Final; A great advert for rugby

Andrew @ October 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Rugby league, not rugby union, that is. Overall, it was a great tournament, but unfortunately the final just so happened to be the most boring game of the entire seven weeks.
I could just imagine all those bandwagon jumpers watching the match in their fresh-out-of-the-packet England jerseys and going, “hang on, I thought the object […]

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Top 5 cycling crashes of 2007

Andrew @ October 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet

The cycling season ends tomorrow with the Giro di Lombardia, aka the most beautiful race in the calendar, and I thought I’d make a list of the five most spectacular crashes of the year.
At first, I thought it was possibly in bad taste, but then I saw the Times’ list of the 50 worst sporting […]

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Now that was a good weekend of rugby

Andrew @ October 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Alright, maybe the Scotland-Argentina error-fest wasn’t exactly a classic, but the other three RWC quarter-finals were incredible.
Earlier this afternoon, a decidedly shaky looking South Africa just scraped past Fiji in an absolute corker of a match. When Fiji start running with the ball in their hands, there is no team in the world better […]

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£17.50 for fish and chips?!

Andrew @ October 6, 2007 # No Comment Yet

The blog is back up and running after a brief spell offline. I hit my bandwidth limit rather early last month and it was down for just over a week. How annoying.
But now it’s back, and so am I after spending a couple of days down in Cornwall. Luckily, it just so […]

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