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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Andrew @ September 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Halfway through the opening pool stages of the Rugby World Cup and the tournament is chugging along nicely. So far I can’t recall seeing one bad game.
Before it started, I questioned the participation of the minnows in the RWC, but I must admit I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the closeness of some of their […]
Andrew @ September 7, 2007 # One Comment
The sixth edition of the Rugby World Cup kicks off tonight with the French hosts taking on Argentina in Paris. While that is likely to a fierce contest, with Argentina having won four of the last five meetings with les Bleus, the rest of the pool matches are likely to be quite predictable.
One of […]