Andy Bull
Senior Sports Reporter and Writer at The Guardian
Senior sports writer for the Guardian. Author of Speed Kings.
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5 days ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Andy Bull
These are good times at Franklin’s Gardens. Five days after the squad celebrated one of the great victories against Leinster, four of them were picked by the British & Irish Lions. The atmosphere around the old ground has been electric ever since. And while you would expect the quartet, Fin Smith, Henry Pollock, Tommy Freeman, and Alex Mitchell, to be overjoyed, what’s more telling is how happy everyone else at the club seems to be on their behalf.
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6 days ago |
theguardian.com | Andy Bull
When the scores are tied, there’s 50 seconds left on the clock, and you need someone who’s going to step up and take that drop goal, then Andy Farrell was your man. And when the series is all-square with one game left to play, and you need someone to give the big speech that’s exactly what everyone needs to hear in the last hours before the match, you won’t find many better.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Ugo Monye |Robert Kitson |Andy Bull |Gerard Meagher |Michael Aylwin
Ugo MonyeBuild the team around The majority of my spine players come in the pack. In some areas the leading candidate is a cut above the rest and none more so than Dan Sheehan at hooker. He’s nailed on as first choice. I’d put Maro Itoje in that bracket too and, due to lack of alternatives, I would’ve had Caelan Doris before news of his shoulder injury emerged. Perhaps the most important player is the one back I’ve selected in this category, however.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Andy Bull
Life moves fast in the Indian Premier League, the richest and most popular cricket competition in the world. A fortnight ago Vaibhav Suryavanshi, 14, was a fringe player for the Rajasthan Royals and the youngest of a bunch of teenagers on the books of the league’s 10 teams. On 19 April he made his debut and hit his first ball for six, then, on 28 April, in an hour of incendiary batting, he scored a hundred off 35 balls, with 11 sixes disappearing to all corners.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Andy Bull
A significant number of former elite players who have participated in World Rugby’s new brain health service programme have been identified as being “at risk” of cognitive problems in later life. So far 131 former rugby union players have registered to take part after last April’s launch, although only 65 have completed the process. Of those, one quarter were referred for specialist treatment. The service is not designed to provide a diagnosis, only to provide a risk assessment for former players.
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This, by my old pal & colleague @robkitson, is exactly what you want to be reading in the next few weeks. It doesn’t flinch from telling a few home truths, but is full of the fun of the game and will remind you of everything you loved about it to begin with. https://t.co/UxFGZKtft1
RT @guardian_sport: Jeremy Alexander, who has died at the age of 81, was a Guardian sport mainstay for 57 years. An engaging reporter, char…
