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Massimo Cuttitta was heart and soul of Azzurri | Brendan Gallagher

22 April 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher remembers Massimo Cuttitta and the Italy of the late prop’s era

St Benedict’s Ealing: Benny’s have done the old monks proud

18 April 2021 2 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools

Stringer’s cheek gets Munster home at last

18 April 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby Pictures: PART 56 Peter Stringer scores […]

Cullen in his pomp was poetry in motion

11 April 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby‘s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful What’s happening here? It’s June 15, […]

Free-flowing Fisher put an emphasis on speed

11 April 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools JOHN Fisher School might have been founded as recently as 1929 – but the Roman […]

The Ash Splash, loved by many, hated by some

4 April 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful What is happening here? It’s May […]

Text-book Worsley, the tackle machine

28 March 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby‘s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby Pictures: PART 53 Joe […]

Lions need jokers to entertain the pack | Brendan Gallagher

28 March 2021 0 comments

This summer’s Lions tour looks set to miss out of its traditions of old – so what will remain?

St Peter’s learned how to take on the big boys

28 March 2021 2 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby‘s great schools NO sooner had I mentioned recently that Campion were the only state school thus far […]

The biggest and baddest moments from the 2021 Six Nations

21 March 2021 2 comments

Brendan Gallagher picks apart some moments from this year’s tournament

Getting inside head of Gatland not easy | Brendan Gallagher

21 March 2021 1 comment

Can Scotland expect to get more than a handful of players on the British & Irish Lions players?

I wish Stander well, but he shouldn’t have played for Ireland | Brendan Gallagher

21 March 2021 0 comments

Respect CJ Stander and what he has done in rugby, but Brendan Gallagher will remain against the permittence of ‘project players’

Sandersons help put Kirkham on the map

21 March 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools LANCASHIRE might not quite be the rugby hotspot at senior level it once was but […]

England’s Lions hopefuls hit skids with Triple Frown | Brendan Gallagher verdict

21 March 2021 0 comments

Critics have raised the alarm bell over England’s slump, so why hasn’t Eddie listened? Brendan Gallagher’s verdict on the loss to Ireland

Who knew exciting rugby could be so fun to play? | Brendan Gallagher

14 March 2021 2 comments

England duo Ben Youngs and Tom Curry made life tough for Antoine Dupont, doing just enough to prevent the France No.9 from hitting top gear

England’s eruption of joy as Billy Whizz explodes

7 March 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful What’s happening here? It’s November 22, […]

Gauzere made the worst back-to-back calls in history of Six Nations | Brendan Gallagher

28 February 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher says the decisions by Pascasl Gauzere during England’s loss to Wales were unfathomable

At last, Slattery gets the title his amazing skill deserved

28 February 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby Pictures: PART 49 Fergus Slattery […]

Guildford make history in Daily Mail U15 Cup

28 February 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools GUILDFORD’S finest hour, and major claim to rugby fame, was winning the inaugural Daily Mail […]

Guscott becomes pride of the Lions in Brisbane

21 February 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby Pictures: PART 48 Jerry […]

Rugby’s great schools – Lancaster RGS: A finishing school for top coaches

21 February 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools to bring Lancaster Royal Grammar School under the microscope

Rugby Matters: Merve didn’t swerve the SA ‘Zombies’!

14 February 2021 1 comment

Wales and Lions great Mervyn Davies wrote about the 1971 Invincibles tour for the school magazine where he taught, Emanuel School

Our security bus had ‘England’ written on the side!

14 February 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher writes on how inauspicious England looked on their trip to Dublin in 1973 during ‘The Troubles’

Williams buckles under pressure of shoot-out

14 February 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby Pictures: PART 47 Penalty […]

Clatter of trains couldn’t derail mighty Emanuel

14 February 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Learning from the master: The great Mervyn Thomas, second left front row, coaching at Emanuel […]

Jack’s shriek of pain was the stuff of nightmares | Brendan Gallagher

14 February 2021 2 comments

England’s win over Italy was overshadowed by a serious-looking knee injury to Wasp flanker Jack Willis

Flying Kirk comes down to earth in Varsity upset

7 February 2021 2 comments

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby Pictures: PART 46 David […]

Rugby’s Great Schools: Sevenoaks globetrotters took on best in the world

7 February 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher looks at the trailblazers brought through the programme at Sevenoaks School

Day the Ellas came to play in Sevenoaks

7 February 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher recalls when Sevenoaks School faced ten future Wallabies, including Mark, Gary and Glen Ella, in 1978

It could go pear-shaped for Eddie Jones very quickly | Brendan Gallagher

7 February 2021 0 comments

Nothing went to plan for England at Twickenham, outclassed and outfought by Scotland

Rugby Matters: Almond got it wrong but he was still right

5 February 2021 2 comments

Brendan Gallagher looks at the significant role of one, Mr HH Almond, in the first meeting between England and Scotland

History of Women’s Rugby: Black Ferns envelop all before them

5 February 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher looks at the all-conquering Black Ferns, who had Anna Richards and Farah Palmer is a decade of dominance from the late 90s to 2000s

Six Nations round table: Grand Slam or not, let’s see some style!

4 February 2021 0 comments

The Rugby Paper’s annual round table Six Nations debate looks a little different this year, but the discussion is just as analytical and fierce

No Kiwis, so England claim 1994 World Cup

31 January 2021 0 comments

HAVING done so much to make the first World Cup happen organisationally, England were shattered to lose the 1991 World Cup final to the USA […]

Giggleswick were lords of their manor

31 January 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Honour: The King meets England in 1938, Giggleswick star Mike Marshall second from right GIGGLESWICK […]

Sensational Sinbad was marooned by his injuries

31 January 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby Pictures: PART 45 James […]

Rugby Matters: Coventry’s array of talent in the 1970s was freakish

29 January 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher looks at the team steeped in England representatives and who made ‘Cov’ the best team in the land

Rising stars hit by double whammy | Brendan Gallagher

24 January 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher can’t wait for the return of the Rosslyn Park Sevens and U20 World Championship to resume

PRL flying the fairness flag is hard to stomach

24 January 2021 0 comments

Halting relegation this season is the right thing, but PRL’s history of fairness is a strange story

O’Gara hoists a high ball and Lions series is lost

24 January 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby Pictures: PART 44 Loftus […]

St Edward’s forged their style in Llanelli

24 January 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Hothouse of talent: First XV 1962-63 Young stars: The U16 team who won the Oxford […]

The history of women’s rugby: Growth in wartime years

23 January 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher looks at the pioneers who fired rugby past being a sport played only by men and opened the game to women between 1880-1920

Rugby Matters: Backs are turning into grunts now

19 January 2021 0 comments

HEARTFELT apologies in advance to forwards everywhere for this treacherous item because I know how incredibly hard you all work and heavens knows the bloody […]

‘Yoga-trance’ saw Tim smash kicking records

17 January 2021 1 comment

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby Pictures: PART 43 Tim […]

Rugby Matters: Lions must be touring underdogs to survive

14 January 2021 2 comments

Brendan Gallagher on the essence of this year’s Lions tour being at risk of being lost

When the Prince made England Sevens kings

10 January 2021 2 comments

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby Pictures: PART 42 Unfancied […]

Suddenly, Oakham find magic of the Cup

10 January 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools Hand-off: Charlie Walker in full flight during Oakham’s 2011 Daily Mail Cup final against Whitgift […]

Rugby Great Schools: ‘Professional’ Colston’s set the bar sky high

7 January 2021 0 comments

Colston’s conveyor belt of talent in modern rugby is quite something…

Rugby Matters: Turbo Teddy Thomas takes try of the year

5 January 2021 2 comments

Brendan Gallagher reflects on some of the finest tries we were blessed to witness in 2020

Sporting warmth in the cold, empty stadium

3 January 2021 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher delves into some of rugby’s most enduring images, their story and why they are still so impactful Iconic Rugby Pictures: PART 41 Stuart […]

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