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Six Nations can’t ignore Georgia’s tour glory

9 July 2016 0 comments

Georgia were back home in Tbilisi this week being lauded by one and all after their inaugural Pacific Island tour resulted in two wins and […]

Brendan Gallagher looks back at Harlequins’ 150th history

8 July 2016 0 comments

What’s in a shirt? Harlequins launched their special 150th anniversary 1st XV shirt last week and the famous quartered colours remain to the fore – […]

Brendan Gallagher remembers the Battle of the Somme

1 July 2016 0 comments

Today we are commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme which history has generally condemned as the greatest insanity of World War […]

Brendan Gallagher verdict: Eddie’s made England box-office again

22 June 2016 0 comments

There was a moment early in the game yesterday – the 12th minute to be precise – when you knew for sure that England were […]

Brendan Gallagher column: For first Lions, cash not glory was top of bill

17 June 2016 0 comments

Whisper it quietly but the first Lions tour to New Zealand in 1888, which took in Australia as well, was all about money and the […]

Brendan Gallagher verdict: England claim redemption

15 June 2016 0 comments

Never underestimate the power of redemption and the urgent bloody-minded need to prove yourself right and the other buggar wrong. It’s the strongest motivator in […]

Brendan Gallagher on Italy and Scotland’s summer scrutiny

10 June 2016 0 comments

Most eyes will inevitably be looking south this summer with England, Wales and Ireland going head to head with the Southern Hemisphere giants in a […]

Brendan Gallagher looks back at the career of Imanol Harinordoquy

10 June 2016 0 comments

So it’s farewell to Imanol Harinordoquy who will be an ex-rugby player by the end of the month, perhaps sooner. His name still manages to […]

Brendan Gallagher looks at how Wales have never yet come to terms with touring in New Zealand

3 June 2016 0 comments

Wales don’t travel to New Zealand often and when they do it’s usually calamitous but history will show that their first ever tour in 1969 […]

Brendan Gallagher: England’s colourful history of touring Australia

27 May 2016 0 comments

Compared with New Zealand and South Africa, an England trip to Australia is sometimes seen as a ‘softer’ tour but the bare statistics don’t really […]

Brendan Gallagher: Premiership final preview

26 May 2016 0 comments

It’s been a long haul but nobody can question that the two best and most consistent club sides in England will be contesting the Premiership […]

Brendan Gallagher column: Connacht, the ‘poor relations’ of Irish rugby

20 May 2016 0 comments

That which doesn’t break you, makes you. My favourite rugby pictures, and indeed story of the season so far, were the Scott of the Antarctic […]

Brendan Gallagher column: Return to the Exeter Championship title in 2010

19 May 2016 0 comments

The last time Exeter finished second in a regular season and contested the play-offs we witnessed a master class from Rob Baxter – then a […]

Brendan Gallagher column: Raise a glass to the Bramley Road faithful

18 May 2016 0 comments

It’s a long way from Bramley Road Southgate to the Grande Stadium Lyon and that journey has taken the best part of two decades but […]

Brendan Gallagher on the love story between Harlequins and Challenge Cup

12 May 2016 0 comments

The Challenge Cup in its many guises has been good to Harlequins and vice versa. Quins have won Europe’s second tier Cup competition a record […]

Brendan Gallagher laments the passing of rugby’s great occasion – the Middlesex Sevens

5 May 2016 0 comments

For decades the last weekend of April/first weekend of May always meant the Middlesex Sevens and although time moves on I’m not quite sure rugby […]

Brendan Gallagher: How Richmond aim to be most ‘professional’ of amateurs …

28 April 2016 0 comments

It’s six weeks ago now, after a regular Tuesday night training session, that Richmond director of rugby Steve Hill and club chairman Peter Moore called […]

Brendan Gallagher: Looking for knock-out drama? Try a European semi-final!

20 April 2016 0 comments

Heaven knows we’ve had our fair share of drama in European Cup finals over the years but, as with most sports, some of the best […]

Brendan Gallagher talks to Colin Deans 30 years on from his big Lions let-down

15 April 2016 0 comments

Thirty years ago this week – April 16, 1986 – Colin Deans finally achieved his ambition of starting at hooker in a Lions “Test” and […]

Jeff Probyn column: I see Italy becoming a real powerhouse of the North

8 April 2016 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher‘s feature on the future of Italian rugby last week got me thinking – and not just about the Azzurri and their future but […]

Brendan Gallagher: Good luck Conor O’Shea in saving Italy!

1 April 2016 0 comments

The great Sergio Parisse, and I use the word in its truest sense, was visibly outraged last week when the vultures circled looking to pick […]

Have Calders got answer for England’s twin peaks?

24 March 2016 0 comments

Brendan Gallagher says the Curry brothers may be chasing one international place but that precedent has been set by a pair of famous Scottish forwards. […]

Brendan Gallagher’s Six Nations review

24 March 2016 0 comments

Round One: Parisse’s moment of madness What so soon? My jacket pockets were still stuffed with World Cup ticket stubs and rail tickets but time […]

Brendan Gallagher verdict: I’ve never seen a more brilliant 21-year-old than Maro Itoje

16 March 2016 0 comments

Maro Itoje is only 21 and on Saturday was just his second start in a senior England shirt but I’m struggling to think of a […]

Brendan Gallagher feature: Georgia have success at Japan 2019 on their mind

11 March 2016 0 comments

Georgia might have been mobbed at Tbilisi airport at some ungodly hour on their return from RWC2015 and, yes, a week of celebrations and partying […]

Brendan Gallagher feature: No matter what your nationality, you can’t beat a good singsong

4 March 2016 0 comments

We are slap bang in the middle of the rugby anthems season – official and unofficial – but where do they come from, why do […]

Brendan Gallagher comment: That tackle by Jack Nowell embodies new spirit

2 March 2016 0 comments

Eddie Jones threw plenty of verbal punches before yesterday’s game and, for the record, I thought bringing Jonny Sexton’s parents into the war of words […]

Brendan Gallagher feature: A phone call from Eddie made Dan Cole king again

24 February 2016 0 comments

Fortunes can change very quickly in sport as Leicester prop Dan Cole has good reason to ponder one way or another. It’s only last month […]

Brendan Gallagher: It feels like a minor classic is waiting for us in Cardiff

18 February 2016 0 comments

No sign yet of the ‘beautiful game’ that Guy Noves had Toulouse playing in their heyday but that was a massively important win for the […]

Brendan Gallagher: Come on Eddie, show some brotherly love and play Billy plus Mako Vunipola from the start

10 February 2016 0 comments

Fe’ao Vunipola and his wife the Rev Iesinga Vunipola are always proud of their sons whatever the day of the week and regardless of whether […]

Brendan Gallagher: Six Nations coaches are at the crossroads

5 February 2016 0 comments

Three New Zealanders, two Frenchmen and an Aussie. That’s your Six Nations coaching line-up this season, an eclectic and erudite bunch although you will notice […]

Brendan Gallagher: Form counts for nothing in Calcutta Cup cauldron

4 February 2016 0 comments

It would be untrue to describe Murrayfield as a graveyard for English rugby, there has been plenty of success there over the years including the […]

Brendan Gallagher: Being coach of England often ends in tears, Eddie

21 January 2016 0 comments

So Eddie Jones is off and running, and to borrow slightly from the late and much lamented David Bowie, we might not know where he […]

Brendan Gallagher column: It’s time for Six Nations to produce real quality

13 January 2016 0 comments

It’s normally right now – the second and third week of January – that I fall back in love with the Six Nations. Hope springs […]

Brendan Gallagher feature: All the big guns set their sights on Rio Olympics

8 January 2016 0 comments

So far so good. After Rugby’s ill-starred Olympic history it’s been comparatively plain sailing to date for the 2016 tournament, at least on the pure […]

Brendan Gallagher: New hope for British clubs as the old empires crumble in Europe

31 December 2015 0 comments

How the mighty have fallen. We still have two rounds of the Pool stages left – in fact some teams have three ties remaining after […]

Brendan Gallagher feature: How the ale and hearty Varsity girls reached HQ

27 November 2015 0 comments

It all started in a pub, as most of the best rugby stories do, back in the summer of 1987 and so good was the […]

Brendan Gallagher looks back at the life and career of Jonah Lomu

26 November 2015 0 comments

During a lifetime in sport journalism I can’t remember anything more exhilarating and life enhancing than reporting on the young Jonah Lomu and then, for […]

Brendan Gallagher column: Let Eddie Jones get England singing to his tune, and nobody else’s

25 November 2015 0 comments

Eddie Jones is not a politician – he’s a hands on coach and doer – and I like to think Friday’s Press conference is the […]

Brendan Gallagher: It’s farewell to Bakkies Botha and Victor Matfield. Yes, really!

20 November 2015 0 comments

For those of you suffering post World Cup cold turkey the Pumas are back at Twickenham on Saturday against one of the more attack- minded […]

Brendan Gallagher comment: Stuart Lancaster was the right man in the wrong job

19 November 2015 0 comments

The alarm bells started ringing loudly, for me anyway, in a dusty classroom at Loughborough University last May. It was just before England jetted off […]

London Sports Writing Festival

9 November 2015 0 comments

The London Sports Writing Festival hosts an inquest into the Rugby World Cup on Saturday 14 November. TRP writer Brendan Gallagher acts as the Master […]

Brendan Gallagher comment: A fittingly Olympian venue for these sporting giants to bid their farewells

6 November 2015 0 comments

It was all about farewells at the Olympic Park on Friday night, as the latter stages of a World Cup often are. New stars are […]

Brendan Gallagher World Cup XV

5 November 2015 0 comments

15. Ben Smith (New Zealand): Consumate in all departments, Japan‘s brilliant Agumu Goromaru the next in line 14. Julian Savea (New Zealand): Use to be […]

Brendan Gallagher feature: England apart, this has been a World Cup to remember!

5 November 2015 0 comments

So how will history view Rugby World Cup 2015? The biggest and grandest in terms of crowd numbers and stadia? Unquestionably, and it was probably […]

Brendan Gallagher feature: This was just a complete blast from start to finish

4 November 2015 0 comments

The construction – or in this case deconstruction – gangs will arrive at Twickenham first thing this morning to start ripping down the huge hospitality […]

Brendan Gallagher comment: Sublime Conrad Smith has a five-star lawyer’s brain and he can hit too

4 November 2015 0 comments

Richie McCaw and Dan Carter deserve every plaudit that comes their way – the golden duo have redefined their positions and rewritten the records book […]

Brendan Gallagher’s World Cup departed XV

15 October 2015 0 comments

15: Ayumu Goromaru (Japan): Sensational player in attack and defence and the team’s goal-kicker to boot. Burst on the scene over a decade ago when […]