Archive for June 1st, 2007


Tony Blair

Tony Blair to make England debut

Friday, 1st June 2007 at 11:07 pm

The 22 named by Brian Ashton on Thursday to take on the Springboks doesn’t include him, but the grapevine has been working furiously this week, with one suggestion appearing time and again: Tony Blair, supposedly in South Africa on a …

Allan Donald

Donald defects to England

Friday, 1st June 2007 at 10:53 pm

It’s not a new phenomenon, certainly - think Tony Greig, Robin Smith, Allan Lamb, and more recently, Andrew Strauss and Kevin Pietersen, for high profile examples. So why, then, does the move north of a man who’s not even playing …

Derick Hougaard

Boks ready for Saturday night

Friday, 1st June 2007 at 10:41 pm

The question this week is not if South Africa will win, but by how much; the margin of victory against a makeshift England team will determine the level of celebration in Pretoria on Saturday night. Pretoria has seen celebration on …