- Mark Orlovac
- 9 Oct 07, 04:12 PM
Paris 鈥 鈥溾, sang Bobby McFerrin in his 1988 number one hit of the same name.
Jut in case you are too young to know, McFerrin鈥檚 song was the most inanely cheery pop song I can remember and is still as infectious now as it was then.
But I would put my house on betting that this particular ditty will not be on any of the mp3 players used by the England pack out here in France. You see, they're not called the "Grumpy Old Men" for nothing.
Continue reading "Grumpy England look for improvement"
- Ben Dirs
- 9 Oct 07, 01:21 PM
Aix-en-Provence 鈥 Tommy and I set sail from Marseille on Monday afternoon like a couple of battered sailors fleeing a storm and have now weighed anchor in the calmer waters of .
Thousands of others will have done the same and will now be cowering under duvets all over the globe, still struggling to come to terms with the weekend they鈥檝e just experienced.
There will never be another two days like it. Apart from next and , that is.
Continue reading "The journey to Paris begins..."
- 大象传媒 Sport Rugby
- 9 Oct 07, 09:21 AM
By Sean Martin in Wellington - Could it be so? , the country that lives and breathes rugby union, is slowly falling out of love with the game?
There was the over the All Blacks鈥 shock World Cup quarter-final exit 鈥 it led , talkback radio was awash with the topic and web pages were hastily constructed on the subject.
to say that the referee was at fault. Heck, even the prime minister and leader of the opposition weighed in with their tuppence worth.
Continue reading "Rugby's allure fading in New Zealand"
