Brave England only lost to South Africa in Twickenham today as part of an elaborate Rugby World Cup rope-a-dope ploy ahead of France next year. Eddie Jones is playing 4D chess and effectively wants England to play possum in front of the Springboks pretty, who obvious tactics will almost certainly bring to France in 2023. […]
It is nice that former British & Irish Lions captain Brian O’Driscoll can look back on his infamous shoulder dislocating incident with Tana Umaga and laugh, and that is exactly what he did this week. After the former All Blacks captain won a silver medal at the World Master Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships recently, O’Driscoll saw […]
Ageing Welshman Alun Wyn Jones was cruelly given a yellow card, even though he didn’t even touch the ball for goodness sake! Did you even see this? It was probably a sad bid to save the Springboks from the ultimate defeat. “It’s cynical hands by 19,” referee Garder says, before he sends Alun Wyn Jones […]
Legendary Saracens hooker Schalk Brits was a guest on World Rugby’s Jersey Tales this week, where a certain incident involving him and his then Saracens teammate Owen Farrell cropped up. The incident came in 2013 when the British & Irish Lions played the Barbarians in Hong Kong. Farrell, starting at fly-half, was holing onto his club teammate […]
