Rugby

Yesterday at Twickenham Stadium Saracens defeated Bath 28-16 to win rugby’s Premiership. It was not the result that romantics like me were hoping for but – fair play to the victors – they ran out to a 25-3 lead by half time and dug deep to retain control after Bath’s second half efforts [...]

Last night Worcester Warriors drew 30-30 to win rugby’s Championship (59-58 on aggregate over two matches, home and away) and gain promotion to the Premiership. I have only read reports of the game, in which Bristol led 30-16 with ten minutes to go to the final whistle, but by all accounts it was [...]

This, my last blog post of the 2014/2015 season, follows Quins’ 26-27 defeat to Bath last Friday night at the Stoop – a slightly atypical loss amongst our many this term in that it followed an exciting ding-dong battle in which the lead changed six times and the outcome could have gone either [...]

Please pardon me – as a Scot, woman and occasional Rust correspondent – for unburdening myself twice in three days, but today I have been moved to do so by an ‘exclusive’ article by John Westerby that appears on the back page of The Times (continued inside) on the vexed subject of the [...]

Yesterday afternoon the Harlequins beat Gloucester 29-26 at the Stoop in the Premiership and now lie in 8th place (on 43 points) behind Sale Sharks in 7th (on 47), who play London Irish away this afternoon, and Wasps in 6th (48 points). Therefore there is still a mathematical chance of Quins [...]

Every fan of team sports is allowed to have two favourite teams – the one they actually love and follow and the one they love to hate. As a Harlequins supporter, the team in my latter category – the one whose every characteristic I despise; the one with the capacity to annoy me more than [...]

This has been a hard, gruelling season for Harlequins – I’m talking for the fans, never mind the players – and there’s still no end to the nightmare. Yesterday I strapped myself in for the ordeal of watching live on BT Sport as we racked up our twelfth consecutive Premiership loss to [...]