The News Review:
- Rugby World Cup: The mood of France
- Rugby: Umaga starts appeal for 2011
- Rugby needs to sex-up front-rower’s job
- Rugby: Eden Park in planning limbo
- Papers focus on Rugby World Cup
- How England’s rugby team was reborn
- How England’s rugby team was reborn
Rugby World Cup: The mood of France
The Independent – Independent – Oct 20, 2007
Your noisy next door neighbours invade your house and drink up all the champagne. Your noisy next door neighbours invade your house and drink up all the champagne.
Rugby: Umaga starts appeal for 2011
New Zealand Herald – Oct 20, 2007
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Rugby needs to sex-up front-rower’s job
The Age – Oct 20, 2007
Six weeks ago there were teams from across theplanet and now there are two South Africa and England. In their opening pool A clash the Rainbow Nation clobbered thePoms 36-blot so rugby buffs may be in for an early knock-off. Tomorrow’s clash is for the purists i.
Rugby: Eden Park in planning limbo
New Zealand Herald – Oct 20, 2007
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Papers focus on Rugby World Cup
BBC News – Oct 20, 2007
“Go Jonny go” cries the Daily Express in its story about the sporting event in reference to England’s talismanic fly-half Jonny Wilkinson. The Daily Telegraph describes Wilkinson as “England’s quiet solitary and modest national treasure”. It says he is the “housewives’ choice and their daughters’ too”. ‘Fighting spirit’Despite the focus on Jonny Wilkinson in the run-up to the World Cup final rugby is a team game and the rest of the squad have not been forgotten.
How England’s rugby team was reborn
Telegraph.co.uk – Oct 20, 2007
Best of all they have roared back by emphasising their Englishness and made misty eyed patriots proud. Vickery’s England are not fiery mercurial Celts strutting super-confident Latins or outrageously athletic and gung-ho tyros from the former colonies. They are hard-core industrious courageous cussed clever honest diehard and eminently likeable Englishmen. ver the past month they – and their magnificent similarly minded supporters – have virtually redefined what it means to be English England’s rugby brotherhood is as decent a bunch of blokes – very English word that – as you will ever meet. It doesn’t always make them winners in sport but they will never be losers in life. Although the Twickenham authorities try to control their relationships with the media most of the squad are educated articulate and strong-willed men with independent minds. Gloriously in these over-regulated and suspicious times they still occasionally break out and enjoy a beer or eight with members of the Fourth Estate.
How England’s rugby team was reborn
Telegraph.co.uk – Oct 20, 2007
At the Stade de France and half an hour before kick-off against France last Saturday that was the moment I knew that England were going to reach the final. It was when I saw Lawrence Dallaglio holding the tackle bags fetching water for the starting XV and generally organising the warm-up. My rugby reporting career has coincided exactly with Lawrence’s long playing career – from the days when he possessed “big hair” played second row for Middlesex U16s and nobody could spell his name correctly. He is the proudest – in a very macho Latin sense (his father is Italian) – and yet most patriotically English determined and occasionally downright stubborn individual I know. It will have absolutely killed him inside these past few weeks being on the bench. Advancing years terrible injuries patchy form – there are plenty of excuses but you won’t hear them from him. What he offered up instead was the best England warm-up in history.