#rugby-world-cup-final

#rugby-world-cup-final

Warren Zaire-Emery is one of European football's coolest operators, having made France's Euro 2024 squad at just 18 years old with over 100 appearances for PSG.

He is capable of getting back to 100%. He is being assessed by the CBF and by me, and he still has two months to show that he has what it takes to play in the next World Cup.

If there is one thing we should take as a life lesson from football's transformation over the last 18 months or so, it's that the wheel really does turn.

Paris FC has made a commendable debut in Ligue 1, currently holding a 10-point lead over the relegation zone and remaining unbeaten in their last six matches.

Leinster face a potential home semi-final or a trip to Murrayfield for the Champions Cup semi-finals after the EPCR announced the semi-final venues.

World Cup 2026 will be the biggest-ever international football tournament, featuring 48 teams and a total of 72 matches in the group stage followed by 32 in the knockout rounds.

"You are playing in front of a sold-out crowd at Allianz, you have just won a World Cup, and the next minute you are back playing over the road in front of a slither of the amount of people."

As the official social media services supplier for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, Meta has got the ball rolling by drumming up early enthusiasm ahead of the tournament, opening the eyes of fans to the role technology can play in heightening their appreciation of the game. A campaign developed by BETC Paris, Havas Play and Unit9 uses the event to showcase what the metaverse can do, with Meta harnessing its full suite of apps from Facebook to Instagram and WhatsApp to thrust spectators on to the field in virtual and augmented reality.

I reflect on my seven years at the club with a huge amount of gratitude. I arrived at the club in 2019 with a few suitcases and a girlfriend, I'm leaving the club with a lot of memories, new friends, a wife and baby,

This week's squad will tell us if Irish head coach is planning to stick with his gradual evolution, or whether he thinks the project needs a sharp shock

Our rugby jury answer the key questions ahead of Andy Farrell naming his team to face France

One minute you are riding the perfect wave, the next you're being dumped from a great height and having your world tipped upside down. Which is essentially how Razor will now be feeling after being ousted as All Blacks head coach barely two years into his tenure. On the surface he was everything New Zealand rugby could have wished for. The serial domestic winner who had guided the Crusaders to seven successive Super rugby titles, the empathetic everyman with the break-dancing skills to match.

I'd like to say skills, but that has to be a wider project at provincial level where the standard of handling has dropped to an alarming level.