... I assume that the BBC’s football producers got the idea for touchline summarisers at Euro 2008 from their Six Nations rugbyunion broadcasts, where cauliflower-eared men shout about “big hits” and “tough ...
... key objective of selling the debentures for £10,000 a time. The FA should take a leaf out of the Rugby Football Union’s book and distribute tickets via the club network, reducing the likelihood of tickets ...
... for a month, that is the modern age festival that captivates the nation.” Instead, in England, there is an empty space in the diary. In the future there is a danger that sports such as rugbyunion, golf, ...
... inter-club games of a type that would persist in rugbyunion for another century. Though the ordinary matches were not “friendlies” as such, a suspicion grew amongst fans and punters that teams were trying ...
... subject for the author to tackle, but Bull wastes no time in pointing out that, in such times, football was viewed there predominantly as a black person’s sport, in contrast to rugbyunion and cricket. ...
Why rugby is reckoned to be better than football “I am probably attracted to rugby because it is a man’s game.” So the Sun reported “the shock conversion” this month of Jimmy Greaves from football to ...
... go further. At an FA roadshow at The Hawthorns in October, Barwick outlined the scheme and cited the example of rugbyunion, where referees in televised matches are equipped with microphones, as a “marker” ...
... Even rugbyunion’s ponderous and cantankerous Guinness Premiership has made significant progress over the last ten. As a spectator sport, women’s football is still banging the drum.X Some sports are great ...
... the best of intentions when the ground opened in 1992, is too restrictive, but the fact that Vaughan also owns nearby Widnes rugby league club hasn’t escaped notice. Brighter news at Notts County, where ...
... Memorial Ground that the club shares with Bristol rugbyunion club and building a new 18,500-seat stadium. Rovers can afford this by building student accommodation in the four corners of the new ground. ...
Ireland’s foreign minister has broached a tricky subject: if one team can represent the island in rugby, why not in football? Paul Doyle reports on the backlash, or lack of one, from some quarters The ...
... that England should practise penalty kicks based on Johnny Wilkinson’s “mastering of the technique” in rugbyunion (Letters, WSC 233) does not stand up. Penalty kicks in rugby come at all distances and ...
... and any other pressures out of the equation. Clive Woodward in rugbyunion is a prime example of such a coach – look at the metronomic kicking of Jonny Wilkinson – yet the message still gets lost. When ...
... would surely only ever happen if Roman Abramovich quit west London, but could a salary cap reduce the champions to also-rans? Wigan, for example, were rugby league’s dominant club until a few years ago ...
... but not Portsmouth on the last day. Tottenham’s visit on a Saturday in November was considered worthy of the knock-down price. Wigan are clearly taking into account the local economy. Rugby league, which ...
... The prince, who was recently in New Zealand helping out on the triumphal British Lions rugby tour, is believed to support Aston Villa or Arsenal. Saturday 17 Chelsea are six points clear after a 2‑0 win ...
... in Australia, though not usually the round-ball version. So it took a certain amount of chutzpah for the promoters of the new A-League to launch it just as the climax of the Australian rules and rugby ...
... point, though, is that former chairman Brendan Elwood, from whom Cheshire Sports bought County in 2003, still retains an interest in Edgeley Park and has not yet agreed to sell. Rugbyunion club Sale Sharks, ...
... rugbyunion in England? Or how comfortable should football be about its growing quasi-religious role (stadium marriages, two-minute silences, work in the community) in society? It is a bit of a pointy-headed ...
... has been a great source of cash for the Welsh RugbyUnion (WRU), which also did well out of the construction of the £121m stadium. The scheme ran into difficulties from the start, however, with the project ...