Unless you worship at the financially bloated altar of the seemingly all-conquering, all-player-devouring French league that is the Top 14 (which started two weeks ago) you will be looking forward to the start of the brand new season which kicks off in just over a week’s time. And what a season it promises to be…
This week’s blog starts with an admission – it was written a good few days ago. My normal procedure when writing one of these (I’m sure you’ll agree) incredibly well-informed pieces is to publish it pretty much straightaway (after the obligatory spellcheck and skim-read obviously). But for this edition, I have simply not been able…
You know it’s summer when, due to the lack of rugby action, journalists are forced to wheel out back-page stories in the shape of hypotheticals, ‘top tens’ and ‘what-ifs’. Articles that have caught my eye in the last couple of weeks include: – A countdown of the top tries scored at the Millennium Stadium, –…
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