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Nice work, Toby

By 6000 | 6000 | November 18, 2011

There’s a Media Statement on Saracens website: Now that all discussions between various stakeholders have been concluded, Saracens has decided the Heineken Cup match against Biarritz on Saturday January 14th will be played not in Cape Town, but in London. The innovative English champion club was eager to host the first Heineken Cup match ever [...]

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So backward…

By 6000 | 6000 | November 15, 2011

Astounding news today that the Western Province Rugby Union (WPRU) have blocked the much anticipated “exhibition” Heineken Cup game between Saracens and Biarritz from being played at the Cape Town Stadium, stating: The WPRFU Executive Committee decided that the home of rugby, Newlands, would stage this historic match. According to the South African Rugby Union [...]

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Mental!

By 6000 | 6000 | November 11, 2011

Yesterday’s cricket at Newlands was a bit mental and broke all sort of records. And even those records that it didn’t break, it threatened with physical violence and actual bodily harm. Cricinfo’s chief statistician S Rajesh was watching it all from the safety of Bangalore and produced this wonderful summary of what happened, what didn’t happen and [...]

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Great er… “weekend”…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 28, 2011

What an amazing weekend for Cape Town sports fans. There’s another football double-header at Cape Town Stadium, with Vasco da Gama up against Golden Arrows and Ajax Cape Town taking on Moroka Swallows – that’s tonight at 6pm and 8:45pm. Then there’s Pro 20 cricket at Newlands (that’s Sahara Park Newlands to you and me), [...]

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That match at Newlands

By 6000 | 6000 | May 15, 2010

It was the biggie. The North/South derby match. The one that everyone had been talking about even more since they realised that this season, it might actually make some meaningful difference to the final standings of the Super 14 table. We parked the kids with a handy Mother-in-Law, I dosed myself up with MedLemon and Corenza [...]

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