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/ 10 September 2007
South Africa will beat world champions England in their crucial World Cup clash on Friday, Springbok coach Jake White claimed after his side walloped Samoa 59-7. White said he wasn’t basing his optimism on the poor performance of England in their 28-10 win over the United States or the 1995 world champions’ comprehensive defeat of Samoa, but on more solid factors.
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/ 9 September 2007
Veteran South Africa full-back Percy Montgomery made up for missing the 2003 World Cup through suspension as he inspired his side to a 59-7 victory over a valiant Samoa in Paris on Sunday in their World Cup clash at the Parc des Princes as he scored 29 points.
The Duke of Wellington may have said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the fields of Eton College, but more surely the game of rugby was founded on the fields of another British public rugby school appropriately called Rugby. And who is to blame for that? An Englishman called William Webb Ellis, who — horrors of horrors for the English — is buried in the town of Menton in the south of France.
Henrik Larsson produced a fairy-tale end to his brief but eventful Manchester United career on Wednesday as the Swedish legend scored to give the Red Devils a 1-0 win over Lille to put them into the Champions League quarterfinals. United clinched the last 16 clash 2-0 on aggregate. United’s joy, however, was not mirrored by Premiership rivals Arsenal.
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/ 27 January 2007
Ireland skipper Brian O’Driscoll believes his team can make history by grabbing only the country’s second Grand Slam (beating all other teams in the Six Nations) and emulating their compatriots’ breakthrough triumph of 1948. He believes that now is the time for the Irish to come good.
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/ 28 November 2006
The northern hemisphere teams can breathe a sigh of relief with the All Blacks returning home after a stunning series of displays in their autumn Tests. The bad news is that they will be back with a vengeance in a year’s time for the biggest prize in the sport — the World Cup.
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/ 23 November 2006
English Premiership champions Chelsea qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League on Wednesday despite losing 1-0 to Werder Bremen. Barcelona beat Levski Sofia 2-0 but the reigning champions must beat Werder in the final group-A match if they are not to suffer a humiliating exit.
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/ 22 November 2006
A terrific free kick by Shunsuke Nakamura gave Celtic an historic place in the Champions League knock-out stages on Tuesday as they edged English giants Manchester United 1-0. After what was dubbed as the ”Battle of Britain”, United’s defeat means the two-time European Cup winners need a point in their final match at home to Benfica to avoid exiting the competition.
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/ 20 November 2006
Ireland’s impressive 21-6 defeat on Sunday of two-time world champions Australia came about because the hosts out-foxed their rivals, claimed talismanic captain Brian O’Driscoll. O’Driscoll had said before the match that he thought the Wallabies were the smartest team in world rugby.
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/ 12 November 2006
Ireland’s talismanic captain Brian O’Driscoll pleaded for a reality check on Saturday after his team inflicted a record 32-15 defeat of 1995 world champions South Africa at Lansdowne Road. The 27-year-old centre said people needed to keep their feet on the ground with a testing match to come against two-time world champions Australia next Sunday.