Author: EMPEZARUNBLIG

Click here for more of The42′s Ireland v England anniversary series > THERE ARE MANY iconic images from before, during and after Ireland’s unforgettable victory over England at Croke Park in 2007. John Hayes shedding tears during the national anthem is certainly somewhere towards the top of the list. This shot of Hayes’ emotions bursting […]

WALES CAME OUT on top of a gruelling encounter with Ireland. Here’s how we rated Joe Schmidt’s side after an intense Friday night fight. Source: James Crombie/INPHO Rob Kearney: 4 At times he threatened to get back to his best in aerial battles, but his tackling and counter-attacking efforts were sorely lacking. Keith Earls: 7  […]

Ryan Bailey reports from the Sparda Bank Hessen Stadium, Offenbach  IT’S A WORLD away from the game as we know it, but that’s not to say it’s a bad thing; scratch beneath rugby’s hierarchical surface and you really discover the true values of the sport. Beyond the intensity and rigmarole that oftentimes is associated with […]

AVULSION IS A word that doesn’t inherently sound positive, but it at least serves to mask the painful truth of an injury that has entered the rugby lexicon since Paul O’Connell hit the deck during the 2015 World Cup. ‘Ripped off the bone’ is how Robert Baloucoune describes the horrific hamstring injury that kept him […]

AS IF THE challenge of halting England’s Grand Slam mission and ending their own 2017 Six Nations on a high wasn’t already great enough for Ireland, Joe Schmidt has now had to contend with losing highly-influential scrum-half Conor Murray. The Munster man’s name was surprisingly missing from the team sheet at Carton House yesterday, after […]

THOUGH CRAIG CASEY’S ascendancy into Ireland matchday 23s understandably captured the greater share of the imagination over the past month, Jamison Gibson-Park quietly proved himself worthy of the number 9 shirt. The Leinster scrum-half played all 80 minutes of the narrow loss to France and visibly drove Ireland’s high tempo in the win over Italy […]

THE THOMOND PARK faithful might feel that this week sees Munster back where they belong, facing into a European knock-out clash. It’s the first time in three years that the southern province have a quarter-final and it is a neat coincidence that Toulouse return to Limerick, having visited for that 2014 clash, when Rob Penney’s […]

Impact Wrestling has announced that Impact Wrestling tag team champions Pentagon Jr and Rey Fenix will defend against LAX (Santana and Ortiz) in a Full Metal Mayhem match at their Rebellion PPV on April 28. Here’s the updated card: * Johnny Impact (c) vs. Brian Cage (Impact World Championship) * Pentagon Jr. and Fenix (c) […]

As previously reported, former WWE World champion AJ Styles is said to be dealing with a hip injury. PWInsider reports that WWE sources confirmed AJ Styles’ injury. Additionally, it’s believed he suffered the injury when he hit the forearm to the outside on Randy Orton during their match at WrestleMania 35. As noted, Styles went […]

Dark Match: Vinny Vortex defeated Bailey Matthews 1. wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship Match Bobby Gunns (c) defeated Absolute Andy 2. Amale Winchester and Baby Alison defeated Killer Kelly and Yuu 3. Shigehiro Irie defeated Jurn Simmons 4. Ilja Dragunov and Avalanche defeated Pretty Bastards (Maggot and Prince Ahura) 5. wXw Shotgun Championship – 3 […]