Unless “you’re English”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/international/4813172.stm, I mean. Not very funny at all then, really.
by Kieran Healy on March 18, 2006
Unless “you’re English”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/international/4813172.stm, I mean. Not very funny at all then, really.
{ 21 comments }
P O'Neill 03.18.06 at 10:30 pm
Not Shane Horgan????
Kieran Healy 03.18.06 at 10:43 pm
“Here you go”:http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41457000/jpg/_41457684_horgan416ap.jpg
Cheryl Morgan 03.19.06 at 12:27 am
I tried hard to laugh, but I’d been listening to the Wales-France game over the Internet (am in Florida at a conference) and mirth simply would not come. The only good think I can say is that John Clute saved me from having to listen to the last 10 minutes of the Welsh disaster live.
Henry 03.19.06 at 12:30 am
bq. John Clute saved me from having to listen to the last 10 minutes of the Welsh disaster live.
How???
Chris Bertram 03.19.06 at 2:49 am
Not as painful as you might think, since we can now engage in our national sport of “told you so”. Stand by for more “Andy Robinson must go” columns by a distant cousin of Kieran.
Bob B 03.19.06 at 6:22 am
It is said – with some merit IMO – that soccer is a game for gentlemen which is played by hooligans while rugby is a game for hooligans played by gentlemen.
yabonn 03.19.06 at 7:35 am
Well, another 6 nations won here. Rather dull, though, and that feeling that the southern hemisphere is where it’s at.
Hope they wake up before the next one.
Cheryl Morgan 03.19.06 at 7:54 am
Henry – there was a book launch that I had to attend that started before the end of the game. The book in question was written in honor of John & Judith, so I really had to be there. And the hotel wi-fi doesn’t extend out to the pool where we were having the launch so that we could, er, launch the book properly. (You had to be there, but hopefully I’ll have photos up soon.)
William Sjostrom 03.19.06 at 9:04 am
To add to your vanity on this point, the Ronan O’Gara whose “conversion put the seal on Ireland’s third consecutive win over England” is a fellow UCC graduate, whose father is a UCC professor.
EWI 03.19.06 at 9:18 am
It is said – with some merit IMO – that soccer is a game for gentlemen which is played by hooligans while rugby is a game for hooligans played by gentlemen.
Then what’s Gaelic, I wonder…?
Kieran Healy 03.19.06 at 10:25 am
Then what’s Gaelic, I wonder…?
“Hurling is a cross between hockey and murder.”
dale 03.19.06 at 10:39 am
gaelic: obviously a game for hooligans played by hooligans
dave 03.19.06 at 11:29 am
dale, that’d be footy. (Australian Rules Football, for those that don’t know)
edhula3 03.19.06 at 11:58 am
“the southern hemisphere is where it’s at.”
Umm…hate to say it but the Southern Hemisphere is where Rugby is played the best. No teams (incl. Argentina) play at such a high level as consistently as the Southern Hemisphere teams.
EWI 03.19.06 at 1:32 pm
gaelic: obviously a game for hooligans played by hooligans
And yet the most good-natured crowds in attendance (excepting stuff-the-ref-in-the-boot-of-a-car Rathnew, of course)
Mr. Healy – the quote seems familiar, but I can’t place it.
mijnheer 03.20.06 at 12:05 am
By all means, discuss rugby, but where’s the post on the ultimate showdown between Godless Communism and Global Capitalism? I’m talking about Cuba versus Japan in the final of the World Baseball Classic. It’s been a wonderful tournament, full of upsets, including the U.S. losing to Canada, Korea, and Mexico — and surprises, like the brilliant upstart Koreans, who didn’t make a defensive error in seven games, but who were eliminated by their arch-rival, Japan, after beating the Japanese twice in earlier rounds. I’ll be cheering for the Cubans, who have a revolutionary love for baseball.
des von bladet 03.20.06 at 4:35 am
Mijnheer, the mighty Intergalactic Scrapbook-Tribune has neglected to cover the “World” “Classic” Honkbal since — purely coincidentally, no doubt — the FDRUSA was eliminated. I still support Japan, Nederland having been knocked out nice and early.
Simstim 03.20.06 at 1:23 pm
Edhula3: last time I looked, Argentina was definitely South of the Equator.
des von bladet 03.20.06 at 3:43 pm
Nah, it’s a suburb of Italy. For rugbyfoopball purposes, at least.
Simstim 03.20.06 at 11:23 pm
Does that make Scotland a suburb of the Netherlands (or vice versa) for cricket purposes?
dale 03.21.06 at 8:22 am
dave (13): right, if you add “…and watched by hooligans” :)
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