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A top-tier French rugby match has been postponed after several players from the Perpignan team were diagnosed with swine flu...The team was to have played Bayonne on Saturday and a new date was not announced. Earlier this year, two matches...

The All Blacks are braced for what should be a vociferous “football-like” crowd at the Stade Velodrome when they face France on Saturday in their last rugby Test of the season. The 60,000-seater Velodrome is home to top-flight French club...

The man who coached France to its first World Cup win in 1998, Aime Jacquet, has fiercely criticized the current manager, saying in comments published Friday that Raymond Domenech should already have been fired. 'When you are in a post...

Will it be all white on the night, or will the cunning French give the All Blacks some real rugby blues? The tourists will wear white jerseys for a rare occasion in an offshore test on Sunday (NZT), due to...

Rumours have suggested that Schumacher was ready to make a shock return after Mercedes bought the Brawn team. Mercedes are not only prepared to put him in the seat vacated by world champion Jenson Button's move to McLaren, but are...

Short and sharp for All Blacks in Marseille 27/11/2009 6:44:02 A marked lift in intensity at the All Blacks' penultimate training run in Marseille today. The session was shorter than normal at just over an hour, but the All Blacks...

Hansen ahead of France test 24/11/2009 5:19:00 All Blacks assistant coach Steve Hansen talks with the media after arriving in Marseille ahead of Sunday mornings test against France. > Listen Muliaina after win over England 23/11/2009 5:15:00 Newstalk ZB rugby...

Thierry Henry says the outcry over his hand ball in France's World Cup playoff against Ireland pushed him to the brink of international retirement, and the Barcelona striker is upset that he was not backed by his own federation. Henry...

In the wake of the shameful hand ball by France's captain that set up the goal that put his nation into the World Cup, it would have been easy to draw depressing parallels with our troubled era...Deceit is everywhere, the...