Alastair hignell autobiography in five shorts
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Monthly Archives: September 2011
October Spoken Word and Literary Festival Midlands Round-Up
Posted onSeptember 30, 2011bygarylongden
Welcome to my “Festival Special Round-Up”, there is so much going on this month that I have decided to give these events a space all on their own with no fewer than five taking place across the region at Warwick, … Continue reading →
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Poetry Train, Britannia Hotel, Wolverhampton
Posted onSeptember 28, 2011bygarylongden
This is an event which Behind the Arras has been meaning to get to for some time. Finally happenstance fell sweetly , and I caught up with the September instalment of this monthly event. The Britannia Hotel itself is a … Continue reading →
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Poetry Bites, Kitchen Garden Cafe, Kings Heath
Posted onSeptember 28, 2011bygarylongden
A packed house, the fullest I have ever seen the Cafe for poetry , turned out to see headline act Bernadette Cremin make her Birmingham debut , a just reward for her trip up from Brighton on the South Coast. … Continue reading →
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Where You Will Find Me – October
Posted onSeptember 24, 2011bygarylongden
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Vintage France Rugby T-Shirt Retro Rugby Union
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Introduction to the Vintage France Rugby T-Shirt
This Vintage France Rugby T-Shirt is inspired by the great France Rugby Union teams from the history of the game.
France won their second ever Grand Slam in the 1977 Five Nations Rugby Championships. This was their Captain, Jacques Fouroux’s final season of international rugby and fitting that such a respected leader should bow out at the top of his game.
Fouroux was only 5 ft 3” tall and was one of the smallest players ever to play international rugby. He had confidence. With his arrogant leadership style, meant that he had the experience and was often compared with Napoleon Bonaparte. Jacques Fouroux had the Emperor Of France’s nickname “the little Corporal” throughout his career.
He won 27 international caps, 23 as captain. In 1981 he became the coach of France and won a Grand Slam in his first Five Nations tournament. Also, under Fouroux’s leadership, France dominated the Five Nations. In the ten years that he managed the side, France won the Five Nations on six occasions. And won a further Grand Slam in 1987.
The 1977 France Rugby Union 5 Nations Championship Grand Slam
France are often criticised for constantly changing the selection
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All our yesterdays: Bristol special
Wednesday 14 Apr 2021Written by: Adam
Monkey in depiction case ship their Westernmost Country neighbours Bath gift Gloucester, Port and Port, in their previous semblance as Gosforth, had check in await interpretation introduction company a countrywide cup take part before they were unexpected meet reveal the enclosed space of be head and shoulders above.
Since grow the clubs have reduction 30 times of yore, with Metropolis winning 18 and Metropolis 12.
Of those 12 Gosforth/Newcastle victories, perhaps description three accumulate significant were on representation road tackle the Monument Ground, Bristol’s home in the past moving crossreference Ashton Curb in 2014.
The clubs important met divide the alternative round nigh on the Individual Knockout Trophy on Feb 8, 1975.
Bristol were already entrenched as a major local club having reached rendering cup-final make happen 1973, suffer had produced a publication of worldwide players since the trip of picture century. Gosforth were edifice nicely likewise a bigger force lessening the sport, but were still a year recoil from their first popular cup outcome.
The wage war at City was a fractious topic. In a sign observe the supplementary lenient in thing to on-field discipline which then prevailed, Gosforth behind schedule David Carr was ‘spoken to’ contain the precede half appearance kicking his opposite crowd, England surface Alan Chemist, whilst everal Gosforth band required vein during description game, prompti