Archive for May 19th, 2007


Absa Stadium

Durban goes completely mad

Saturday, 19th May 2007 at 1:05 pm

The airport has been chaotic since Thursday, bottle stores are like Woolworths the week before Christmas, and half the city would happily exchange a kidney for a rugby ticket. Super 14 at last has an all South African final, and …

Matt Prior

Matt Prior, MBE

Saturday, 19th May 2007 at 12:45 pm

I haven’t checked this morning’s English papers yet, but the safe money is that Matt Prior has at the very least an MBE by now; in fact, he might well have been knighted. The English do emotional celebrity rollercoaster like …

Gert Smal and Schalk Burger

Schalk completes extraordinary comeback

Saturday, 19th May 2007 at 11:31 am

Rugby focus this week has been on Durban, and assorted front pages, which has allowed the Springbok camp to get underway in relative peace and quiet (attention on Xhosa loose forward Luke iWatson aside). With the Bulls and Sharks players …

Tony Blair pats Wembley on the back

Saturday, 19th May 2007 at 11:04 am

It’s three years late, several hundred million pounds over budget, and a worrying omen for the 2012 Olympics… but Wembley has been completed at last, and on Saturday afternoon will see its first Cup final since reconstruction began in 2000. …