 13 venues, each representing a very different element of New Zealand, will host matches during the 2011 World Cup. With the draw announced, it’s game on. The Cup is Coming Home and, we predict, it looks like it just might be staying...
 The commentators called all those up-and-unders that marred yesterday’s rugby international between Ireland and England at Croke Park ‘low-risk rugby’. But The Cup is Coming Home argues that the risks were actually very high indeed.
 "Harry is a competitive guy and we did not think it was malicious in any way. It's something that happened." Leicester Tigers' defence of the spear tackle on Perpignan's All Blacks stand-off half Dan Carter is as risible as the silence emanating from the New Zealand rugby authorities when Lions skipper Brian O'Driscoll was maimed back in 2005. There is simply no place - and thereby no excuses for - spear tackles in rugby, we believe.
 It was, by any standards, a spectacular, perhaps game-defining tackle. Within moments of the second-half kick-off in Saturday’s test match between the All Blacks and England, and with the match delicately poised at 12-3, English number 8 Nick Easter was sent racing unopposed for the line. However, a desperate, flailing tap tackle by an All Black defender saved the day for the New Zealanders. But who was the man that turned on the tap? Leading UK newspaper The Observer credited no fewer than three All Blacks.
 The Cup is Coming Home reviews some of the press coverage emanating out of the Northern Hemisphere tours by the All Blacks.
 Star England cricket pace bowler Ryan Sidebottom is a shock late call-up to the England squad for the Autumn rugby internationals, The Cup is Coming Home can reveal. The tousle-haired tearaway and look-alike to Welsh prop Adam Jones impressed new England manager Martin Johnson for his ferocious tackling of the Kiwis in a recent one-day international.
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