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The luck of the English (38)

• Alastair Hignell
• 13 Sep 07, 02:49 PM

Paris - By rights, Brian Ashton should have been born on Friday the 13th, and spent his childhood treading on cracks pavement and playing hide and seek under ladders, before going on to strangle every black cat in the neighbourhood.

If any man could be the exception that proves the rule about sportsmen making their own luck, it is the England coach.

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Toulouse, la trek (48)

• Tom Fordyce
• 13 Sep 07, 11:18 AM

Condom, again - We should have known that something bad was afoot when we both woke up on Wednesday morning from jaw-clenched technicolour nightmares.

Mine involved hitting a furious Brian Ashton in the face with a misplaced spin-pass, while Ben’s saw him steal a VW campervan belonging to Steve Coogan before inadvertently driving it backwards off a cliff.

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Driven crazy by the opening exchanges (38)

• Sean Davies
• 13 Sep 07, 07:53 AM

It’s been a frustrating for the armchair supporter of the home nations.

I’m not talking about the less than inspiring wins over the , , and .

It’s those damn with the imbecile supporters from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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