The News Review:
- Celtic kings
- GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP FINAL: SALE v LEICESTER TWICKENHAM TDAY 3pm
- Will the hero-next-door be kicked into touch?
Celtic kings
BBC News – May 27, 2006
Tommy Bowe Matt McCullough Bryan Young Roger Wilson Neil Best Stephen Ferris and Rory Best and Andy Maxwell bear testimony to the province’s ability to nurture the careers of talented youngsters. Maxwell started the season out in the cold but his form in the Heineken Cup win at Treviso made him a natural first choice thereafter.
GUINNESS PREMIERSHIP FINAL: SALE v LEICESTER TWICKENHAM TDAY 3pm
Mirror.co.uk – May 27, 2006
Healey brings the curtain down on his career as a full-time player this afternoon when Tigers attempt to end four barren years without a trophy in the Guinness Premiership Final. It is an intolerably long run of failure for a club of Leicester’s size and pedigree and their determination to upset top seeds Sale is clear for all to see. There is captain Martin Corry’s assertion that “we’re a club which measures success on how many trophies we win not how far we get in tournaments”. There is boss Pat Howard hammering home the point that this is not the last game of the season it is THE game of the season. And there is the evidence of Leicester’s current form – an unbroken winning run since Bath bundled them out of the Heineken Cup on April Fool’s Day… There is captain Martin Corry’s assertion that “we’re a club which measures success on how many trophies we win not how far we get in tournaments”. There is boss Pat Howard hammering home the point that this is not the last game of the season it is THE game of the season. And there is the evidence of Leicester’s current form – an unbroken winning run since Bath bundled them out of the Heineken Cup on April Fool’s Day. Not for the first time however it is Healey who makes the point most forcibly in what could be his last game for Tigers. “It will be a complete and utter disaster to end up with nothing” said the Leicester Lip. “Getting to the final is not an achievement. You have to win it.
Will the hero-next-door be kicked into touch?
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 27, 2006
Will the hero-next-door be kicked into touch? (27-MAY-06) Europe Intelligence Wire. But with rugby becoming more commercial every year that co.