We are in the midst of the Rugby World Cup 2011 down here in New Zealand – which may not mean much to those nations not playing the ‘great game’ but the tournament is the 3rd largest global sporting event after the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics so you can only imagine the impact it has on a country of only 4 million people.
My city in recent weeks has been overrun by Welsh fans in song, Scotsmen with their colourful kilts and no knickers, English from the mother country, Fijians shivering in the Wellington weather and scary looking Russians in sunglasses … [read more]



