It’s time for rugby to face cold reality and seize chance to move to a summer season October 28, 2012 YOU have to be clinically insane to do what I did on Saturday. Horizontal rain, blowing a gale with a Siberian chill factor, and I voluntarily stood on a touchline watching 30 men honest and true, attempting to construct an entertaining game of rugby. Meanwhile yesterday morning across the country, thousands of young people opened [...]
Olympic venue set for Rugby World Cup use October 8, 2012 WEMBLEY and the Olympic Stadium are among three London venues on the longlist for use when England hosts the Rugby World Cup in 2015. Twickenham is the other on the 17-strong list, which will be cut to 12 and controversially does not include Welford Road, the home of Leicester Tigers. Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium is one [...]
Robshaw: Rugby shouldn’t start to panic about Ashton’s attack September 19, 2012 ENGLAND captain Chris Robshaw hopes his fellow rugby players are not about to be frightened off from making public appearances after the winger Chris Ashton was glassed at the weekend. The Saracens and England international was on a night out in London with his girlfriend when he was attacked by a stranger but Harlequins’ Robshaw believes [...]
Talks fail to break deadlock in dispute over Euro rugby future September 18, 2012 EUROPEAN rugby’s future remains in the balance after talks in Dublin yesterday failed to avert the threat of a breakaway from English and French top-flight clubs. Stakeholders in European Rugby Cup [ERC], organisers of the Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup, agreed to reconvene in Rome next month to continue dialogue. It comes after Premiership [...]
England rugby star Ashton hospitalised by glassing September 16, 2012 ENGLAND and Saracens star Chris Ashton suffered cuts to his face after being glassed by a stranger in a London nightclub, the Premiership rugby club confirmed yesterday. The winger was celebrating an anniversary with his girlfriend, half a dozen team-mates and their partners following Saturday’s high-profile draw with Leicester Tigers at Wembley when he was [...]
BT adds rugby to its TV offering September 12, 2012 BT has secured a £152m deal for the rights to show Premiership rugby union matches on its TV service, in the latest aggressive move from the company after its shock grab of Premier League football rights. The four-year contract, which allows BT to show 69 live games a year from the start of the 2013-14 [...]
Rugby stars descend on the City August 27, 2012 A QUIET summer day in the City was last week livened up by the presence of rugby stars including England captain Chris Robshaw. Seven Investment Management hosted the one-day work experience, which emphasised the importance of planning life after rugby. Fighting your way out of a scrum is a useful skill in these banker-bashing times.
JD Sports sells rugby kit brand Canterbury to Pentland for £1 August 23, 2012 JD SPORTS, the sportswear retailer, has agreed to sell its Rugby brand Canterbury to its majority shareholder Pentland for £1, three years after the group bought it out of administration. Pentland, which owns brands including Beghaus and Speedos and holds a 58 per cent stake in JD Sports, will pay a token £1 for shares [...]
Saracens star brings rugby to the City’s heart August 23, 2012 SARACENS caused a stir in the City again last night when the high-flying rugby team returned to the Honourable Artillery Club for a glitzy pre-season friendly against French stars Stade Francais. The 2011 Premiership champions won 61-17, with England winger Chris Ashton scoring a hat-trick. But it wasn’t just the rugby getting tongues wagging. The [...]
Rugby chiefs hand video ref greater power August 20, 2012 VIDEO replays are to be used more widely this season in top flight English rugby, with referees able to ask the television match official to look for any fouls he may have missed leading up to a try. The expansion of their responsibility from ruling solely on the grounding of the ball will apply only [...]