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The RFU’s Choice of World Cup Venues

It’s encouraging that the RFU has announced the eight venues to host matches in the 2025 World Cup. It shows that arrangements are well in hand for the first RWC to be held in England for fifteen years. The eight are: Twickenham Stadium, Sandy Park Exeter, Salford Community Stadium Manchester and Franklin’s Gardens Northampton; Ashton

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Team Bath stars help England make Netball World Cup history

Team Bath stars past and present helped England reach their first-ever Netball World Cup final as they secured silver in South Africa. Australia proved too strong in Sunday’s final, clinching their 12th title with a 61-45 victory, but it was still a tournament to remember for the Vitality Roses, who are led by former Team

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“The Loudest and the Proudest”

A rallying call has gone out today for the nation to get behind the Lionesses ahead of the opening game of their 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup campaign in Australia. In a new 90 second video released today [Thursday 20 July 2023] Leah Williamson and Jill Scott join forces to deliver the stirring message as

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World Cup sparks record fans

England’s World Cup Final losers are inspiring record numbers of fans for their new season as a consolation for the heartbrake of missing out on becoming world champions. Quins say ‘around 50,000’ have already bought tickets for the women’s and mens double-header versus Bristol next month. Furthermore, ‘more than 20,000’ have already bought tickets for

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Heartbreak House

The Red Roses walk empty away How did the red-hot favourites come to lose yet another world cup final, when everything seemed to favour them? Here are a few discussion-points. The shortest answer would be: the Black Ferns encouraged some of their greatest Sevens players to switch across to the Fifteens game. Sevens Kiwi experts

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Canada v France

  France have so much experience of finishing third at world cups that you have to wonder whether the coaches needed to exercise them at all pre-match. Tough and resourceful as the Canadians were, the French had the edge at all the decisive moments. They used a following breeze to build attacking positions. Emilie Boulard

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Black is your favourite Colour again

New Zealand v England, the Final – Eden Park A game of unspeakable intensity and drama saw the Black Ferns snatch a sixth World Cup trophy and end that 30-match winning run of the visiting Red Roses. Pre-match The first thunderclap came with the announcement that Leanne Infante had failed a fitness test. This was

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