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A la Colthard: Hotel du Vin/ England v Australia

For the England v Australia match husband Ollie had invited the chaps round for lagers and take-away pizza to watch and, not feeling like any of the last four, I organised a girls’ night. Ivan Conway called to say as he was going to the Amex and therefore not taking up his 4 places at the [...]

October 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well it’s game on now

It is the lot of all those who seek employment as specialist correspondents and/or venture into sports punditry to steer a tricky course between making bold predictions that subsequently fail spectacularly to come to pass; being wise after an event when previously they had been quite the opposite; [...]

September 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Now I can believe anything

A watershed has been reached – the 2015 Rugby World Cup has finally ‘arrived’ in terms of becoming fixed in the nation’s consciousness. Yesterday I visited the residential home in which my father resides. He seemed, as usual, on pretty good form and at 2.30pm – after lunch – we sat down [...]

September 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Nobody’s perfect

With the start of rugby’s Premiership season delayed because of the Rugby World Cup, yesterday I donned my Harlequins onesie in order to watch on television the All Black’s opening match against Argentina at Wembley in front of a new RWC record crowd of 89,000. The Kiwis duly won the match [...]

September 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

the Jap victory: a local view

When the sports editor asked me for a piece on what proved an enthralling upset yesterday I felt both inadequate and nervous. Rugby is not a sport I follow but the sports editor said that I know the Brighton sporting scene and could do a vox pop post. I have bored readers before on what a great [...]

September 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

The RWC party starts with a bang …

And so the 2015 Rugby World Cup has begun. Given the recent near blanket back-page coverage – someone within the heart of World Rugby and the RFU’s 2015 World Cup organising committee must either be thanking their lucky stars or else receiving due tribute and congratulations for the excellence [...]

September 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

View from abroad

I was rather surprised when, as football correspondent with a meagre knowledge of rugby, the sports editor asked me to contribute a piece on England’s victory over Fiji. I am scarcely qualified to speak on the technical stuff but they like to do this view from a different sport on the Rust. I [...]

September 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rugby World Cup – taking or leaving it

I’m well-known as a rugby fan and over the past few months I have been asked innumerable times by a wide variety of folk how many Rugby World Cup matches I am going to, who is going to win the William Webb Ellis trophy … and so on. The answer is that I have deliberately bought no tickets and am [...]

September 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Weekend press

There’s only one traditional and absolute rule in Rust-land, which is that there are no rules, instructions or boundaries – well, apart from those we impose upon ourselves. I’m pretty sure – though not 100% certain because none of this has ever been explained to me, indeed [...]

September 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

An evening with a rugby legend

Ivan Conway kindly invited me to a dinner, one of the events for beneficiary Luke Wright, with All Black Doug Howlett. Howlett with 49 tries in 62 games is the leading scorer of the All Blacks and one of a handful to have won trophies in the North and South hemisphere: the Super 14 and Heineken Cup [...]

September 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

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