What ho, rugger buggers!
Well done, chaps! Worthy winners! Back where we belong on top of the pile!
Yours, etc
Viscount Crouchback
P.S. Jolly well done to Ireland for performing so splendidly in their annual "cup final" against the English. I know it's been awfully difficult for the poor old Irish lately, so I do hope this victory will give them some small comfort as they confront thirty years of penury. Well done, Paddies!
The forced smiles of dull bruised men set against the backdrop of a soulless hotel room.
Yes, there's something a little sad about that photo.
Posted by: Gemini | 20 March 2011 at 03:40 AM
Just in case you missed this!
Another delightfully apt comment from Steve James in the telegraph..
"They were boys in a man’s world."
Indeed England were.. That's what happens when stock of a lesser breed, such as the Saxons, faces up the brutality and might of the Irish Celts
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/sixnations/8392983/Ireland-v-England-Martin-Johnsons-men-find-life-tough-as-Irishmen-hand-out-a-lesson.html
p.s worst six nations winners ever
Posted by: Andrew K | 20 March 2011 at 07:33 AM
And again..
I think Mike Catt summed it up beautifully in the the telegraph..
"Ireland, to be fair, were simply irresistible. England were outclassed in every single department and could not live with the intensity and tempo of an Ireland side who delivered their most passionate and compelling display of the championship"
Posted by: Andrew K | 20 March 2011 at 07:36 AM
If i may paraphrase for a moment..
Winston Churchil, Maggie Thatcher, Lady Diana etc, etc..
"Your boys took a hell of a beasting"
Posted by: ROG | 20 March 2011 at 07:43 PM
7/8 since 2003.
Not bad for Plucky Little Ireland...
Posted by: Micheal O'Coileain | 21 March 2011 at 10:27 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB5eu0EwK34
Posted by: Paulie | 24 March 2011 at 10:59 AM