Ex-Wallaby second row John Langford travelled north to become one of Irish rugby’s most significant overseas signings during a three-season spell with Munster from 1999 to 2002. He doesn’t get to watch the game he loves too often these days but he's making an exception this summer.

I regret to inform you that the press box is not a font of wit and rapartee.

Robbie Deans has brushed aside comments by David Campese that he has “destroyed Australian rugby,” but admitted he understands criticism of his regime.

Kildare 0-19 Limerick 0-12 (after extra time)

ALEX FERGUSON, who has enjoyed a bit of success over the years, would call this “squeaky bum time.”

ITALY will try to prove to others and themselves that they merit a place in the RBS 6 Nations following their “disastrous” defeat to England a fortnight ago.

HE’S worked with Jonny Wilkinson and Luke Donald, and if you want to know why you can’t kick frees in Gaelic football, he can tell you. Michael Moynihan spoke to Dave Alred.

THE BRIEF from the top at ERC was straightforward: “your mission, should you choose to accept, is to select the best European side of the last 15 years comprised of players who played in either the Heineken or Challenge Cup competitions”.

I nurse a clandestine habit that has driven me to the coldest and darkest corners of society.

Wales 31 Scotland 24

Former Wales captain Rob Howley has paid tribute to Scotland star Chris Paterson on the eve of him joining international rugby’s 100-cap club.

I have learned through harsh experience that every Australian side will fight to the death.

AUSTRALIA full-back Chris Latham is confident his best days are still ahead of him, after signing a two-year deal to join Worcester next season.

ARGENTINA utility back Federico Todeschini believes maintaining a high standard of discipline will be the key to defeating Scotland in Sunday’s quarter-final in Paris.

Australia veterans George Gregan and Stephen Larkham will bid an emotional farewell to their home fans after being named in the Wallabies squad to face South Africa at Telstra Stadium on Saturday.

Australia scrum-half George Gregan is expected to be fit for his final Test match on home soil when the Wallabies take on South Africa at the Telstra Stadium on Saturday.

Australia full-back Chris Latham is a major doubt for this year’s World Cup in France after tearing an anterior cruciate ligament in his knee during a Queensland Reds training session on Saturday.

TOMORROW will be an emotional day at Lansdowne Road, the day when fans and players, former and present, say goodbye to international rugby at the rickety old stadium.

Pop star Robbie Williams and celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay today unveiled their line-ups for Soccer Aid.

ALL’S well that ends well. Twickenham was a great place to be last Saturday. For the countless thousands of Irish people working across the water, Saturday’s game was all the sweeter. To win a Triple Crown at any stage is a welcome achievement. To do so with the last play of the game at the home of the reigning world champions made it more noteworthy.

AUSTRALIA coach Alan Gaffney insists under-fire captain George Gregan has the Wallabies’ support to lead the team out of their slump with a victory over England on Saturday.

Australia coach Alan Gaffney insists under-fire captain George Gregan has the Wallabies’ full support to lead the team out of their slump with a victory over England on Saturday.

PREPARE for lift-off when flight NZ1 touches down at Heathrow Airport today — the All Blacks will be in town.

LEINSTER coach Michael Cheika will hope his new charges have shaken off the cobwebs that cost them victory last week in Wales when they take on the Glasgow Warriors in Donnybrook in the Celtic League on Saturday.

Former Wales captain Rob Howley has won the Rugby Union Writers’ Club prestigious Pat Marshall Memorial Award.

Gareth Llewellyn’s experience of French Championship rugby could prove useful when he lines up for Wales against Romania at the Millennium Stadium tonight.

George Gregan appears destined to smash Jason Leonard’s world record and become the most capped player in rugby history after he today agreed a new three-year contract with the Australian Rugby Union.

The British and Irish Lions’ “massive contribution” to rugby will honoured in the second Parliamentary Rugby Awards in Britain.

Wasps’ inspirational captain Lawrence Dallaglio will put aside his admiration for Munster and love of all things Irish for 80 minutes on Sunday. He spoke to Barry Coughlan.

EX-AUSTRALIAN winger and serial Pommie-basher David Campese has launched another broadside at England coach Clive Woodward, saying he will not still be coaching the Red Rose side in 2007 because his players will become “sick of him”.

Ex-Australian star winger David Campese has launched another broadside at England coach Clive Woodward, saying he will not still be coaching the side in 2007 because his players will become “sick of him”.

CLIVE WOODWARD has criticised the BBC for allowing former Australian star David Campese to present England with a top award at the Sports Personality of the Year Show.

England rugby coach, Clive Woodward, today criticised the BBC for allowing former Australia Test star David Campese to present England with a top award at the Sports Personality of the Year Show.

Former Australian rugby star David Campese will parade down London’s Oxford Street today wearing a sandwich board praising England’s World Cup win.

Former Australia Test star David Campese believes changes in the rules of the game may be necessary to stop others copying the approach of “boring” England.

New Zealand 10 Australia 22

Australia coach Eddie Jones has defended his team and tactics as they head into their World Cup quarter-final against Scotland on Saturday.

DAVID CAMPESE has attacked Wales, Scotland and Ireland for playing dreadful rugby at the World Cup and has not spared tournament favourite England from a scathing tirade.

MUNSTER’S “nearly man” Chris Latham put himself in line for a place in Australia’s starting line-up against Ireland in Melbourne on Saturday by scoring a record five tries in the 142-0 demolition of hapless Namibia at the Adelaide Oval.

Australia tore up the record books by demolishing Namibia 142-0 in their Pool A match in Adelaide today.

There would have been time when the last thing a Wales coach needed to say in the build-up to a Test match, never mind a crucial World Cup showdown, was that his side needed to match the passion of the opposition.

Ireland today mixed business with pleasure as the countdown to Rugby World Cup 2003 gathered momentum.