South Africa’s formidable loosehead prop, Ox Nche, has gone missing in action this week, sending ripples of panic through the Springboks camp just days before their much-anticipated World Cup final showdown with the All Blacks. The reason for his sudden disappearance? None other than a Parisian patisserie tour that turned into a cake-induced quest of […]
The All Blacks may have been annihilated by the Springboks in their last game before the World Cup. Then they may have been comfortably beaten by France in the opening game of the World Cup. But the improvement they have made since then is nothing short of superhuman. France and the Springboks are good, but […]
The air in the All Blacks’ Parisian hotel is heavy with a sense of foreboding. It’s the eve of their highly anticipated Rugby World Cup quarter-final against Ireland, but the mood in the team’s camp is far from what you’d expect from the 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cup champions. Something unusual is happening, and […]
It was only a matter of time. England head coach Steve Borthwick could only watch for so long as his England side were sent off and banned while nothing happened to the rest of the world before he did something about it. He saw Curry get red carded against Argentina, then he saw Chile’s Martin […]
