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ArticleMagnifique! It’s a Bordeaux double

BORDEAUX-Begles secured back-to-back Champions Cup titles with a 41-19 demolition of Leinster in Bilbao. Leinster opened the scoring with a Tommy O’Brien try but Bordeaux then smashed over five from Maxime Lucu, Pablo Uberti, Yoram Moefana and...

■ By BEN JAYCOCK

ArticleOjomoh’s absence is difficult to understand

THE selection of Bristol’s South African-born centre Benhard Janse van Rensburg for England’s first Nations Championship training squad is a controversial call by Steve Borthwick. Soon after the squad was announced I made my views clear...

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ArticleBlackheath go up as Scottish relegated

BLACKHEATH will play in the Champ next season after beating London Scottish in the Accession Final yesterday. It is the first time Blackheath – the oldest continuous rugby club in the world founded in 1858 – have been in the second tier...

By ROGER PANTING

ArticleGallagher: Scott was >> the supreme team player

BRENDAN GALLAGHER

ArticleCain: England set-up >> needs a radical overhaul

NICK CAIN

ArticleTeam of Season: >> National Two West

CAMBORNE stormed to the National Two West title in emphatic fashion and, unsurprisingly, the champions dominate this season’s Team of the Season with seven inclusions. The Cornwall-based side combined brutal forward power with one of the...