The title pretty much says it all. We’re paying out early on all single bets on New Zealand to win the 2011 World Cup. France were lucky to scrape past Wales and barring one of those All-Black World Cup collapses we know so well, Les Blues have no chance. Actually, now that I’ve said that, […]
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Do France Have Any Chance Of Beating New Zealand?
No, is the short answer and based on what we’ve seen of them in the World Cup the longer answer arrives at pretty much the same conclusion. From what we’ve seen far, only the most deluded of cheese-eating surrender monkeys would give their team a chance of upsetting the All Blacks on home soil, but […]
Wales March Triumphantly Into Final of the World Cup of Moral Victories
Only someone with a heart of stone wouldn’t feel sorry for the Welsh. Or anyone with a rugby rulebook. Clearly playing the majority of the game with 14 men didn’t help Wales’s chances of winning, but neither did missing a whole range of very kickable points. Still though, the players who weren’t sent off – […]
A Refund on the Wales v Ireland Match
Yes. We got ahead of ourselves. Yes. We thought we were already in the final. Yes. We underestimated the Welsh. Yes. We’re all feeling a little sorry for ourselves at Paddy Power. While we’re sure the last thing on Irish rugby supporters’ minds while crying into their Guinness-soaked Cornflakes was; “Well, we’re out of the […]
Rugby World Cup Preview: New Zealand v Argentina
Through no fault of the organisers, the least interesting of the quarter-finals has suddenly become far more interesting. It’s still hands down the least interesting of the quarter-finals but with Dan Carter hobbling his way out of the tournament, the game assumes huge importance as the All Blacks need to convince themselves Colin Slade is […]
Rugby World Cup Preview: South Africa v Australia
It wasn’t meant to be like this. They were meant to be merrily thumping inferior 6 Nations teams all the way to the semi-finals, but going against the script, we’ll be losing one of the Tri-Nations teams cocky enough to think they’re more than capable of winning the whole thing after this one. Between them, […]
Rugby World Cup Preview: England v France
‘What? I’m not allowed to drink til I puke? Next thing I know you’ll be telling me I can’t light my own farts or lace Bruiser’s jockstrap with lashings of Deep Heat.’ In many ways, the debate surrounding the off-field antics of some of the England players is a clash of ideologies. One theory which […]
Rugby World Cup Preview: Ireland v Wales
It’s the rugby equivalent of a newly formed unattractive couple. Each part of the couple involved will think the people looking in on the relationship will identify them as the hot one and ‘the catch’ of the pair when in reality everyone just sees two ugly and rather arrogant people. Both sides will think this […]
How Scotland Left The World Cup Early Volume 3,561
It ended with all the telltale signs. Crushed hopes that this time it would be different; no need to change the flight details to accommodate an extended stay and lots of patronising comments about the World Cup being all the lesser for not having the Scots at it. At the outset, an exit at the […]
5 Things We’ve Learned From The Rugby World Cup To Date
1. Mike Tindall is in some serious trouble when he gets home to England It’s going to take a lot of flowers, chocolates and if possible, a World Cup winners’ medal for Mike Tindall to be welcomed home with a warm embrace from his wife of all of two months. And if a World Cup […]
Ireland v Australia Betting Preview
Perfectly understandable or time to push the panic button? Like the first time the nation laid eyes on Westlife, there was something eerily familiar that stirred some memories – very few of them good. “It was the first game of the tournament so they were always going to be rusty”. “The Americans were pumped up […]
Widespread Shock As Wales Prove Not All 6 Nations Teams Are Rubbish
It’s been a great start to the Rugby World Cup for the teams of the 6 Nations. Providing you’re from the southern hemisphere. If you’re actually a supporter and not just a smug member of the Tri-Nations rejoicing in your collective superiority, it’s largely been dismal. Even the supposed leading lights of Europe’s flagship tournament […]
Rugby World Cup Warm Up Matches Preview
Is there a bigger oxymoron in the sporting lexicon than ‘friendly rugby match’? It’s a phrase that comes across as being almost nonsensically self-contradicting – something akin to a ‘merry sexual assault’ or ‘jovial GBH’. Can sticking your head between other men’s legs ever really be done in a ‘ friendly’ way? Well, ‘yes’ is […]
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