The News Review:
- Was old rugby really so bad?
- BBC SPRT / RUGBY UNIN
- Rugby: So’oialo’s shaky men sneak their way past Reds
Was old rugby really so bad?
Independent nline – Feb 23, 2008
It is the one the game’s lawmakers would have us learn with the ELVs but I’m with Fourie du Preez and Bryan Habana on this – I do not find it tripping off the tongue. The reasoning behind them cannot be faulted: to allow players to decide games rather than referees to increase ball-in-play time and “improve” the spectacle. But by tampering with the game’s syntax – its structure – it has been turned into pidgin-rugby: the words are familiar but they’re in all the wrong order.
BBC SPRT / RUGBY UNIN
BBC News – Feb 23, 2008
England took the lead through Paul Sackey and a conversion and penalty from Jonny Wilkinson made it 10-0. France hit back through Lionel Nallet’s converted try but a second Wilkinson penalty made it 13-7 at the break. A Morgan Parra penalty cut the gap to three but Wilkinson added a penalty and drop-goal before Richard Wigglesworth’s last-gasp try killed off French hopes. England had not won away to France in the Six Nations since 2000 but the last time they met in Paris in the World Cup semi-final in ctober England ground out a 14-9 win.
Rugby: So’oialo’s shaky men sneak their way past Reds
New Zealand Herald – Feb 23, 2008
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