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The sporting weekend

The sporting weekend exposed many clichés and platitudes. In beating fancied Australia in the ICC Trophy South Africa proved that they are not chokers and the quota system has produced successful captains in the Springboks and Proteans. England rugby union’s Gallagher Premiership Final was a [...]

June 16, 2025 // 0 Comments

Danny Care: thanks for the memories

Harlequins had a typically close but exciting win over Exeter Chiefs yesterday but the result had to play second fiddle to the farewell of their legendary scrum half Danny Care. Danny notched up 394 appearances for Quins and gained 101 caps for England – all the more remarkable a statistic as [...]

May 19, 2025 // 0 Comments

British & Irish Lions selection

Choosing 40 players meant there were unlikely to be any surprises but Sam Prendergast, Ben White, Jack Willis and Owen Farrell – -all at French clubs – never made it, nor did Robbie Henshaw. Prendergast paid for a poor performance for Leinster against Northampton Saints but his day will [...]

May 9, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Sporting Saturday

No doubt about the greatest sporting achievement yesterday – Northampton Saints’ monumental victory over Leinster in Dublin, 37-34 in the semi final of the Champions Cup. Leinster field an international team and had previously put 52 points past Glasgow and 62 past Harlequins. They are [...]

May 6, 2025 // 0 Comments

Weekend TV sport

With no Premiership or Championship soccer taking place you might have thought some of the internationals between European titans (e.g. Netherlands v Spain or Italy v Germany) might be broadcast, but the powers that be apparently imagine that we prefer women’s football or Scotland or Wales [...]

March 24, 2025 // 0 Comments

Six Nations/all considered

With staggered kick-offs three countries led the table but most wiseacres thought France would win it – as indeed they did, beating a spirited Scotland. I did not watch Italy v Ireland but, though the latter did not live up to their “favourites” billing, they will supply the bulk [...]

March 16, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Six Nations

Ireland are not as good as they think they are, England not as bad as the critics make out and France think they are good … and they are. Les Bleus  ran out easy winners in Dublin even though Antoine Dupont was badly injured and could play no further part after 30 minutes. Although Sam [...]

March 10, 2025 // 0 Comments

Bath Rugby 39 Harlequins 28 (Premiership Cup)

Normally it’s Quins who mount a second half revival but this time Bath, who were in the first half 21 points down, who dominated the second half to win comfortably. This was principally due to bringing on a fresh  from row (Ben Obana, Tom Dunn and Phil de Toit) who totally overpowered Quins who [...]

March 1, 2025 // 0 Comments

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