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Law-tinkerers are a danger to the game

25 June 2023 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST THE odds on Owen Farrell travelling to the World Cup as England’s starting No.10 are even shorter than the lifespan of […]

Why Ojomoh could be in with a shout

14 May 2023 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST SO Bath won the big one against Saracens Under-12s and secured their Champions Cup qualification at the final tap of the […]

What was that again? Big Dave has trouble with his articulation

30 October 2022 2 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST It is a well-known fact in literary circles that TS Eliot’s great poem The Waste Land, first published a century ago, […]

Rugby has a proper fight on its hands now

7 August 2022 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Anyone out there remember Sean Kerly? It’s just about possible, but only if your joints are seizing up and you feel […]

Playing under one flag could threaten the union

24 July 2022 2 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Rugby is just a game, as the saying goes, but that doesn’t mean it is bereft of history as an agent […]

Beauden, Finn and Marcus are keeping Bennett’s spirit alive

19 June 2022 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Spike Milligan, comedy goldsmith and undisputed grandmaster of nonsense verse, counted rugby among the great loves of his life. “The thing […]

This dash for cash could end in a crash

15 November 2020 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST If you fancy undertaking a basic English language challenge this Sunday morning – it really shouldn’t take long, so you won’t […]

Another bashing for battered Dylan

6 September 2020 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST IF, FOR some peculiar reason, you ever wondered how to sound like an irritable magistrate of the “flogging’s too good for […]

It’s heresy, but 71 Lions were fairly ordinary

14 June 2020 1 comment

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Not at his best: Gareth Edwards in the third Test in 1971 PICTURE: Getty Images “Barry John, aka The King, committed […]

Wheelchairs or rucks is rugby’s choice

4 August 2019 0 comments

CHRIS HEWETT GUEST COLUMNIST Even at this advanced and supposedly enlightened stage of our development as a species, sport clings to its primitive side. Hence […]