• Japan beating South Africa: The biggest shock of recent times?

    Shocks like this were not supposed to happen in rugby. Maybe in football, but the scale of domination by the elite is just too great in rugby. Impact Sport has taken a look at the biggest sporting shocks and upsets of recent times, to see if Japan’s recent success...
  • Dear Taylor/Kanye/et al… Don’t Perform In Israel.

    Israel is a hot bed for controversy. We are told what happens between it and Palestine is so deeply cultural that the west could never understand it, let alone help to rectify it. It’s becoming clearer though, thanks in part to a sharper historical perspective and in part to...
  • QBE Internationals 2014: A Retrospective

    England’s defeat of Australia on Saturday brought to a close this year’s autumn internationals test series; it was the last opportunity for northern hemisphere teams to test themselves against a host of southern hemisphere countries before the World Cup in England next year. Fortunes were mixed: England generally struggled,...
  • QBE Internationals Review: England vs South Africa

    It’s becoming a tale all too familiar: a northern hemisphere team coming up just short of the southern hemisphere giants. This is particularly pertinent of England, who are struggling to cement themselves as serious contenders for the Webb Ellis Cup in a year’s time. Considering Ireland’s defeat of South Africa...
  • Everybody Wants to Rule the World: RWC 2015

    Everybody’s eyes are on the rugby world over this next year as the Rugby World Cup races ever closer. Every pass is being analysed, every tackle criticised, and every try is being recorded. The big bosses of each selected countries rugby union are hard at work, trying to put...