Five days in Paris down, 42 to go. We began with airport Charles de Gaulles (les bun fight). Immigration was painful, baggage collection a shambles and the coffee expensive. Sometimes the problem with France is the French.
The lads eventually made their way onto des Champs Elysées. Nestled some 50 metres from the base of the […]

The 1998 World Cup was credited with boosting consumer spending for the host country with the principle beneficiaries being hotels, restaurants, and sales of World Cup-related sporting products.
And this time around no stadia had to be built.
Organisers have calculated the economic spin-off at eight billion euros ($16 billion) over four years, of which half this […]

Today’s New Zealand Herald picked out some interesting World Cup facts and figures…
- 95 countries have national rugby teams, although only 20 play in the Rugby World Cup. Teams like Bosnia Herzegovina, the Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago have missed out on qualifying
- The largest distance between World Cup venues is 1900kms from Marseille to […]

Delme Parfitt writes in the South Wales Echo “The path to World Cup glory begins in just a month, but today Gareth Jenkins has led Wales into no-man’s land.
He will remain in charge until the end of France 2007, there’s no doubt about that.
But his record of won three, lost 10, drawn one – with […]

We’ll ever since we got into blogging we’ve noticed that South African rugby, and more recently the World Cup are hot topics in the local blogosphere. There are some really good bloggers in SA and we figured we’d give you all a chance to get rewarded for your efforts.
Hence the World Cup Bloggers Competition. We […]

Fan website Sportingo recently ran a column containing what author Hamish McBrearty felt are the best players - and performances - of the previous World Cups…let us know what you think:
Fullback: John Gallagher (New Zealand) It was tempting to select Christian Cullen in this position, but Cullen only appeared in the 1999 World Cup, where […]

Here are some highlights of the All Blacks at the 1987 World Cup:

Thanks to Barter for sending these in…
Dear Women,
1. From 7 Sep to 20 October 2007, you should read the sports section of the newspaper so that you are aware of what is going on regarding the World Cup, and that way you will be able to join in the conversations. If you fail to do […]

With the World Cup just around the corner (and the boys on their way there…still going off my tits about that!) thought it might be suitable to share a cheeky preview clip from youtube: