Leicester Tigers

There's a useful guide to the Twickenham dramatis personae at http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/no ... twickenham.

Very interesting interview with Francis Baron about recent goings-on at HQ - http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard- ... s-baron.do

The use of 'step' for 'side-step' must confuse many of those new to the game.

Good news, but a development that was foreseen in the column - There is now talk that both titles will be included retrospectively, but this must surely be for appearances' sake only and it is difficult to see how either could win from this position. The other title referred to is Simon Wilde's biog...

Letter in today's Independent:

Under the terms of the rewritten Act of Succession, if Princes William and Harry were to die childless, there must be a strong chance that we would find ourselves ruled by Queen Zara I and her consort the Duke of Twickenham.
W Stephen Gilbert
Corsham, Wiltshire

The Books & Bookmark column in the current (50th anniversary) edition of the Eye discusses the omission of 'Engage' from the longlist for the 2001 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. It concludes Conspiracy theorists, meanwhile, are muttering darkly about the organisers punishing Kimmage [Matt...

Some interesting quotes from yesterday's edition of The Score ( http://www.thescore.ie/ref-report-card-alain-rollands-rugby-world-cup-so-far-252421-Oct2011/ ): Here’s one for you stats nerds. Rolland is the only referee yet to produce either a yellow or a red card at this year’s World Cup. With the ...

Also http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/oc ... es-referee.

@loretta

Exactly.

I saw a headline just now (can't remember where) along the lines of 'Warren Gatland says Wales were let down by the referee'!

It looks though either Rolland or Joubert will referee the final (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/ar ... d=10758137)

From http://www.aru.org.uk/referees/downloads/admin/dangeroustackles09.pdf: To summarise, the possible scenarios when a tackler horizontally lifts a player off the ground: ∞ The player is lifted and then forced or “speared” into the ground. A red card should be issued for this type of tackle. ∞ The ...

I use http://sportonthebox.wordpress.com/live-rugby-union/. For one thing it includes 'red button' matches.

French Top 14 club, Montpellier have signed Argentine international wniger, Lucas González Amorosino on a two year deal from Aviva Premiership side the Leicester Tigers. Amorosino left Buenos Aires club, Pucará in 2009 to link up with the English giants and scored the teams only try in the historic...

Leicester's Lucas Amorosino had a particularly good game, repeatedly scything through the defensive line from full-back in a one-sided first half. So said the Guardian in its report on Argentina v Romania. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/sep/17/rugby-world-cup-argentina-romania1) Let us hope ...

In Opera the list of topics now has a reasonable font size but is still red. Is that what is intended?