Rugby

October 1, 2006 12:21 AM

Borders reel from a misjudged tirade

Plain speaking from Murrayfield is to be welcomed, says Alasdair Reid, but timing is everything

For lovers of black comedy, there has never been a shortage of entertainment in the long-running farce that has unfolded along the corridors of rugby power at Murrayfield down the years, but the current occupants of that perennial house of...

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September 17, 2006 12:45 AM

Shoulder of fortune

Injury struck just as international stardom beckoned but Rob Dewey is back and ready to start again with Edinburgh, finds Alasdair Reid

The Gods cursed Achilles with his famously dodgy heel, and it is easy to suspect they were up to the same sort of mischief when they cobbled Rob Dewey together. Having blessed their man with a physique – more than...

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September 10, 2006 12:49 AM

Speaking terms

Money talks … unless the cash concerned comes from corporate sponsorship, then, argues Alasdair Reid, it tends to have the opposite effect

It is already part of golf’s Open Championship folklore that Thomas Bjorn made a complete pig’s ear of getting out of a bunker beside the 16th green in the final round of the 2003 event at Royal St George’s. On...

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