Was it the most spectacular interception made by Leicester Tigers in their long history? One moment, the celebrated Michael Cheika, of Lebanese descent but...

Fifty years ago an 11-year-old rugby fanatic was given a Wednesday afternoon off school to make the trip to Cardiff to watch the legendary All Blacks. Wales...

The pressure is on Luke Pearce. The Pontypool-born RFU referee takes charge of the first match in this season’s Rugby Championship. Australia face the back-to...

The first reaction was that the world had ended, or at least that part of it which felt most comforting. The old rectangle and towering edifice in southwest...

Six days that will live for ever in rugby history. And yet even before the echoes of the roars of 55,000 had stopped rebounding around Stade de France and...

Rugby is a team game where individuals tend not to rise above their team-mates — indeed individualism is sometimes actively discouraged. One man, however,...

The France full back Melvyn Jaminet has been banned for at least six months and fined more than £25,000 for racist remarks in a video during his country’s...

The Six Nations are set to be split over the election of World Rugby’s new chairman with the RFU understood to be among the major unions supportive of Brett...

Ben Youngs has revealed that he thought he was going to die after collapsing during training because of a heart condition that has led him to have surgery....

Ireland’s victory against South Africa last weekend reminds me of why I love rugby. It shouldn’t really have been a notable series. The Irish players had had...