43 min: England are playing pretty well here, so don’t be too hard on them. One German goal was down to a keeping error and the other one was just a brilliant, brilliant shot. “It’s only a friendly but surely worth a mention that the Republic of Ireland are four up after 70 minutes....
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England hungry to be world’s strongest team
When your body fat levels are being checked every 3-4 weeks, as is now customary for England’s leading rugby players, Christmas is a period to be negotiated with care. No wonder Dan Luger, when asked this week what he planned eating over the festive season, glanced around furtively. Confessing to a weakness for pizza...
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England hungry to be world’s strongest team
When your body fat levels are being checked every 3-4 weeks, as is now customary for England’s leading rugby players, Christmas is a period to be negotiated with care. No wonder Dan Luger, when asked this week what he planned eating over the festive season, glanced around furtively. Confessing to a weakness for pizza...
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England line up their first reserves
With barely three weeks to go before England meet New Zealand at Twickenham, Clive Woodward left the door ajar yesterday by informing his 33-man senior squad they could be overtaken as early as next month by the first graduates of the Rugby Football Union’s new national academy.
All Woodward’s established figures except Leicester’s Martin...
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Cricket: England Still Stuck in Spin Cycle
To be the best you have to have spin, quality spin. Which is why the ECBs stated goal of England becoming the best team in the world by 2007 is likely to remain elusive. England have a fine trouper in their cast in Ashley Giles, but even he would acknowledge he cannot seriously be...
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South Africa v England – LIVE!: Fifth Test, final day
54th over: South Africa 212-2 (de Villiers 85, Kallis 97) Flintoff returns to the attack, presumably because another over from Giles might have meant England squeezing in one more before lunch. Anyway, his third ball is a full-toss, which Kallis steers through extra cover for four, and he moves to 97 next ball with...
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RFU Graduates Bear Down on England Squad
With barely three weeks to go before England meet New Zealand at Twickenham, Clive Woodward left the door ajar yesterday by informing his 33-man senior squad they could be overtaken as early as next month by the first graduates of the Rugby Football Union’s new national academy.
All Woodward’s established figures except Leicester’s Martin...
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