“It went down so badly!” Brian O’Driscoll was Ireland captain for 83 of the 133 Test caps he won with his country. By the time he retired, in 2014, he was a dab hand at press conferences and dealing with the media. That was not always the case. Back in 2003, after getting a taste […]

3 years ago

‘Ireland taught them a big lesson’ Now that his old punch-bag, Eddie Jones is back in Australia, Clive Woodward has more time to look around the other sides competing in the Six Nations. A Grand Slam and World Cup-winning coach with England, Woodward regularly muses about the game on ITV and in his Daily Mail […]

3 years ago

Don’t leave me hanging, Shaun… Clive Woodward had another mini 2003 World Cup reunion on ITV, this evening, as the broadcaster covered England’s final day tilt at France in the Six Nations. Woodward was joined by Jonny Wilkinson and Lawrence Dallaglio, as well as host Mark Pougatch, as they covered England’s attempts to throw a […]

4 years ago

Oh, Clive. “I haven’t gone entirely on Six Nations form,” former England and Lions head coach Clive Woodward states in his latest column. That must explain, then, why he has gone with six English players and one from Ireland despite some damning evidence in Dublin. If you were selecting your Lions Test XV last December, […]

5 years ago

Former World Cup winning coach Clive Woodward believes that Ireland head coach Joe Schmidt will be hugely worried by what he saw from his side during Saturday’s 57-15 mauling at the hands of England. The landslide defeat represented Ireland’s largest ever loss to England with the Irish line-out and scrum malfunctioning on several occasions with […]

7 years ago

This claim was left buried for almost a decade. Clive Woodward is not letting this on-the-record claim, in a supposedly confidential report, from Dean Richards go unchallenged. 10 years ago, Harlequins brought the game into disrepute when winger Tom Williams (pictured below) bite down on a fake blood capsule, which he had hidden in his […]

7 years ago