Articles tagged ‘Twickenham’
Barbarians v Springboks at Twickenham
By Chris | October 10th, 2007 |
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The Rugby World Cup reaches the semi-final stage this weekend with England playing France and South Africa up against Argentina. South Africa are the favourites to win the whole thing and have looked the best team in the competition so far.
If they do win the World Cup fans in London will get an early look [...]
London Rugby Double Header
By Chris | September 13th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
If the Rugby World Cup has got you in the mood to see some live action, get along to Twickenham this Saturday afternoon for the start Guinness Premiership, the English club season, and what’s billed as the London Double Header.
Two games for the price of one at the home of English rugby featuring Harlequins [...]
Music Legends play London
By Chris | August 16th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Late summer seems to be the time when the older rockers come out to play in London. Prince (49) is working his way through playing his 21 shows at the O2 Arena in London, the same venue where The Rolling Stones will play three gigs starting next Tuesday 21 August.
Mick Jagger (64), Keith Richards [...]
Middlesex Sevens
By Chris | August 13th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Twickenham rugby stadium hosts the annual Middlesex Rugby Sevens tournament this coming Saturday 18 August. Rugby Union is a game played between teams of 15 players over 80 minutes, Sevens as the name suggests is played by teams of seven with games lasting between 14-20 minutes although they are still played on the full size [...]
Busy sporting weekend in London
By Chris | August 9th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The new football season starts this weekend and the sports press can concentrate on something other than whether Beckham’s problem with his big toe/ankle/new haircut will stop him walking down another red carpet. Football fans will be filled with hope for a good season, at least until Monday, but the return of the Premiership and [...]
Waiting for summer
By Chris | June 29th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Quite a few of London’s major sporting venues are in use this weekend and not just for sports events. Tennis continues at Wimbledon, Lord’s hosts a One Day International cricket match between England and the West Indies on Sunday, Rod Stewart plays the 82,000 seat Twickenham rugby stadium on Saturday and on Sunday the new [...]
London’s Final Weekend
By Chris | May 18th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
This weekend London hosts the climax to not only the club football season in England but also to European club rugby. On Saturday afternoon at 3pm the new Wembley Satdium gets its first showpiece event, the FA Cup Final between Manchester United and Chelsea and on Sunday at 2.30pm Twickenham hosts the final of the [...]
Twickenham rugby final tickets available
By Chris | May 9th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The domestic rugby union season comes to a climax this Saturday 12 May, with the Guinness Premiership Final being played between Gloucester and Leicester at Twickenham stadium in West London.
The Guinness Premiership is the top division for English professional clubs and features 12 teams who play each other home and away. Once each has played [...]
Events in London this weekend
By Chris | March 9th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Greenpeace ship open days The Arctic Sunrise is the ship that Greenpeace have been using for the last 12 years in their campaigns around the world, including protecting the whales in the Antarctic from the blubber hungry Japanese and recording climate change in Greenland. Now they’ve brought the ship to London to campaign against the [...]
The hero returns
By Chris | February 9th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
English sport had been at the bottom of the barrel until last Saturday. The cricket team was getting the life knocked out of them on their long tour of Australia, the football team was going from bad to worse and kept on in that direction this week losing at home to Spain playing probably the [...]
