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Lions' ghosts haunt Auckland

Just back from a press conference at England's hotel down in Auckland harbour. The Lions were based there three years ago. It seems like yesterday, with all its attendant horrors. The pressers were held in the soulless exhibition rooms, echoing kind of ...

From MICK CLEARY, The Telegraph,  13 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Ian McGeechan

Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar?

Fiction better than fact? No chance. Two of the same: Can Matt Damon pull off Francois Pienaar? Well, not in this instance. Word is out that Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman are to reprise South Africa's World Cup victory in 1995 on film. Now, I grant you ...

From MICK CLEARY, The Telegraph,  11 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Matt Damon,  Francois Pienaar,  Nelson Mandela,  Morgan Freeman

Ireland without their main man

Focused: Kidney is concentrating on the Heineken Cup Now, it might be stretching a point to compare Hong Kong to Limerick, but sitting here in transit at HK, with the rain sluicing down and the winds blowing in off the South China Sea, and that big ...

From MICK CLEARY, The Telegraph,  6 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Michael Bradley,  Martin Johnson

Reasons to be cheerful and despondent

2) Richie McCaw – master of the fine line. Some call him a cheat. I call him a genius 3) Down-to-earth golf clubs. No stuffiness, no snobbery, just acres of fairway, little of which I am familiar with, being a man who lives life on the rough ...

From MICK CLEARY, The Telegraph,  6 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Richie McCaw

Dark clouds gather over Graham Henry

Brian Ashton gets to World Cup final and gets sacked; Graham Henry goes out at World  Cup quarter-final and stays in a job - discuss. I'm sure the topic will still be live and furious by the time I arrive in Wellington on Saturday. Heavy rain forecast. ...

From MICK CLEARY, The Telegraph,  5 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Brian Ashton,  Roy Keane,  Clive Woodward

Three cheers for the RFU blazers

Job well done: the RFU have dismissed the ELV concerning mauls Now there's a line that almost didn't make it on the record this season. Better late than never. Apologies for not posing recently. Knackered. Energy levels shot to bits. Still, New Zealand ...

From MICK CLEARY, The Telegraph,  3 Jun 2008

RFU should go back to the future

Clear out: play would speed up with the return of the ruck Here I sit, on a blustery but mercifully sunny day on the south coast, waiting news from Dublin and hoping that the RFU pull it off. Siding with the RFU has not been a common occurrence down ...

From MICK CLEARY, The Telegraph,  1 May 2008

England fans need to let rip

What a joy it was to be at Twickenham last Saturday. Now that's not a sentence that I've trotted out too often. True, there have been some decent games there down the years but the stadium tends to leave me cold. It's too open, too gently-tiered and ...

From MICK CLEARY, The Telegraph,  30 Apr 2008

Respect, init?

Respect for what exactly? The game itself, the opposition or a sense of yourself? Dust-up: emotions run high after the game at Stamford Bridge So, compare and contrast – Chelsea-Manchester United against Saracens-Munster. Richard Hill, his mates in ...

From MICK CLEARY, The Telegraph,  28 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Richard Hill,  Chelsea F.C.,  Manchester United,  Steve McClaren

Rugby attendances on a slippery slope

I'm a bit behind the eight-ball on this one for all the usual male reasons of sloth, incompetence and Harveys. Belter: France v Wales at the Stade de France Anyway, the issue needs addressing and views need soliciting. France-Wales, Friday night next ...

From MICK CLEARY, The Telegraph,  25 Apr 2008

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