March 06, 2004

They'll be weeping in Twickenham

Posted by Henry

Ireland 19, England 13

Posted on March 6, 2004 09:03 PM UTC
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“Grand Chelem”.

Pronounced “shelem” : the proper word for grand slam.

Nyuknyuknyuk.

Posted by yabonn · March 6, 2004 09:35 PM

That’s a lot of goals for a soccer match.

Posted by chun the unavoidable · March 6, 2004 11:22 PM

I was dancing on the streets of South Wales, mind.

Posted by Keith · March 7, 2004 03:25 AM

:(

Well done Ireland!

Posted by Chris Bertram · March 7, 2004 10:03 AM

Chun, it is rugby, and those are points, not goals, inasmuch I can trust my memory of the rules.

DSW

Posted by Antoni Jaume · March 7, 2004 12:18 PM

Weeping in Twickenham, yes. Weeping among those in England who consider English rugby union ‘a game for stockbrokers’, no.

Posted by nick · March 7, 2004 05:12 PM

Shedding a couple of tears in Ireland too, helas ….

(btw, I discover that there is a Professor of Sociology in Canberra today called “Kieran Fallon”. What a f’kng couple of days he must have had).

Posted by dsquared · March 8, 2004 09:00 AM
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