The News Review:
- France crushes Namibia for biggest international rugby victory
- Wallabies close roof on broken home rugby
- Culture Shock: Rugby and soccer are the most popular sports in the…
France crushes Namibia for biggest international rugby victory
USA Today – Sep 16, 2007
The French displayed the full repertoire of their running game in the Group D game in Toulouse and finished with 13 tries. The outcome topped France’s 77-10 victory over Fiji at Saint-Etienne in 2001. “After a difficult week we’re back in the World Cup but the hardest and finest have yet to be faced” France coach Bernard Laporte said. “It’s a pleasure to see the players happy again.
Wallabies close roof on broken home rugby
guardian.co.uk – Sep 16, 2007
But what about the rugby?We used to be so good at this game. England were really good at it remember? It was what about four years ago. And then – can it have been only two years ago that Wales were dazzling their way to a grand slam? Can it have been only 10 months ago that they took on Australia here at the Millennium Stadium and played a blinder drawing with the Wallabies in a game they could so easily have won?Now Wales are a rugby nation spooked. Maybe not haunted ghostly white like the English but running scared all the same this way and that up and down side to side never quite managing to escape the monsters in gold black or green that stalk their every move.
Culture Shock: Rugby and soccer are the most popular sports in the…
Free with registration – The State – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 16, 2007
16–MALAKATI ISLAND Fiji — n this tiny island in this tiny nation in the South Pacific something big has taken hold. When the Rugby World Cup began last week it sent nat.