- Bryn Palmer
- 25 Sep 07, 07:39 PM
Versailles - England may still, in the words of Brian Ashton, be 鈥渓ooking down the barrel of a gun鈥 as they prepare to face World Cup shock troops Tonga this week.
But if the world champions remain in do-or-die mode after their , at least they now give the impression of enjoying their dice with death.
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- Alastair Hignell
- 25 Sep 07, 05:20 PM
Paris - 鈥淭he girl you鈥檙e dancing with is a bloke鈥.
The memory of the whispered warning at the post-match party after England played Tonga for the first time is as sharp now as the lighting back in 1979 was dim.
Memories of the match are less clear; we won, one of their wings was the size of a small house, while the , to whom we were presented before the game, was the size of a large one.
I remember spending the pre-match warm-up clearing shards of razor-sharp coral from a pitch that seemed to have an equal number of bumps and potholes and considerably fewer blades of grass.
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- Tom Fordyce
- 25 Sep 07, 01:33 PM
Bedoin, at the foot of Mont Ventoux, Wednesday morning - Some people are born foolish; some have foolishness thrust upon them. Very few combine both those traits, and then also happily embrace additional foolishness with arms outstretched.
It would appear that I am one of them.
My companion Degustation Dirs is fulfilling his cultural remit on this Francophile extravaganza by sampling , wine and he can lay his eager hands on. By idiotic contrast, I decided to break our journey from Montpellier to St Etienne by cycling up .
I know.
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