Sport… if winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
I dislike Australians almost as much as New Zealanders and Cork people… (only in sporting terms, of course - outside of sport, Aussies and Kiwis are really nice people). Shane Warne is different.
Always a “colourful” character, in his sporting career he has been fined for accepting money from bookies, missed a Cricket World Cup due [...]
As I mentioned earlier, my favourite rugby commentator, Stuart Barnes had a delightful quote in the Times:
England need a head coach who is not scared of losing. That man is Brian Ashton.
Oh dear…
From sportcrazy.spreadshirt.net.
Technorati Tags: rugby, Stuart Barnes, England, Brian Ashton
For an Irish fella, I’ve been rather too nice about England’s diabolical sporting run lately so this will help tilt things back the right direction:
WHO WILL BE THE FIRST TO CELEBRATE?
English jockey to ride winner of Grand National - 9/4
English winner of Snooker World Championship - 3/1
England to win Six Nations - 9/2
English club to [...]
In today’s announcement, fiendishly devised by Rob Andrew and the English Rugby Football Union to cast doubt upon my rugby prediction skills, Brian Ashton was promoted from Attack Coach to Head Coach of the England team.
Ashton has a lot of things going for him, but I don’t think he’s the right man for the job, [...]
Despite Serge Blanco’s best efforts the Heineken Cup is still up and running this year. Yesterday the tournament organisers announced the fixtures for round 6 on the weekend of 19th to the 21st of January 2007.
HEINEKEN CUP 2006 / 2007 - ROUND 6
FRIDAY 19 JANUARY, 2007
Pool 2 Gloucester Rugby v Leinster 19.30 Sky [...]
On Saturday Nov 25th a cyclist had an accident on the Naas Road - and Kevin has his bike. From the Cycling Ireland post:
At about 1.00pm on Saturday 25 November 2006 on the Naas Road a few hundred yards on the town side of Newland’s Cross and maybe 50 yards from Joel’s restaurant. I came [...]