There are six minutes left but I turn to Benjy and tell him that Spain have won the World Cup. I love this Spanish team but you have to feel for the amazing Dutch fans. After the whistle, the Spanish side celebrates in front of us. Incredible the World Cup is over. It’s been an...
Yet defence coach Simon Easterby said yesterday that they would have done the same again and that a 6/2 split would not be removed as an option for this Saturday’s final-round clash at home to Scotland, when Ireland can secure back-to-back Six Nations titles, if not a repeat Grand S...
Here are my best retrieval practice activities, presented without exemplars because most of them are not currently fit to be seen and if I have to wait until they are, this post won’t be published until March winds – early or otherwise – have well and truly flown. Please do add your ...
I cannot recall any rugby match - and this is only a semi-final - generating such enormous media speculation and analysis. Even the levelheaded Daily Mail yesterday described it as the most important meeting between our two countries since Agincourt.Rugby should be vastly proud. True, football...
“It won’t be speedy, that’s the advice I’ve had from Colombia,” he said. Mr Broadbridge, who kept his head down as he read from a prepared statement, said he and “Cass” were engaged and he intended to marry her. “I know that there are many unanswered questions in this cas...
Yesterday we had a west wind, which would have suited me very well for today as I went along the shore line next the railway in a north-easterly direction. Instead I got a north-east wind in my face all day. It was so cold I am sure it came all the way from Norway. It turned...
Like, don’t be something you’re not because it won’t work that well. I think it’s a valid concern that many people have about chronological age. I think that it’s a it’s a great question. My thoughts on it are like, be as good as you possibly can at being your regrets ...
Most of them, who probably thought Conchita Wurst was the coolest thing they’d ever seen, probably weren’t even an ovum the night Dana International’s ‘Diva’ won the competition nearly 20 years ago. And even if you’re old enough to have sufficient knowledge of Eurovision pre-dating ...
AT the end the scene could have been mistaken for a normal post-match celebration. The manager was on the pitch saluting players who had won 4-0 away from home.There were hugs and handshakes and a wave for the travelling support.But this was far from normal. It is a long time sin...
the trial teams to appreciate that a record of never being dropped in 45 internationals - starting against England nine years ago - will take some saving.'I accept that I have not been playing well enough to push for a place in the Wales team,' he said. 'But I won't be giving it...