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Remember the following events? 2018 Football world cup Semifinal - Croatia beat England 2 goals to 1 People all over the world mock England "It's your team coming home". Not the world cup. 2016 T20 final - Eden Garden's Kolkata West Indies need 19 runs to win during the last over. Carlos Breathwhite 4 sixes in a row left Ben Stokes in tatters. 2019 50 Over World Cup - England vs Srilanka The team predicted to score 500, went down to the weakest team in the tournament. Kevin Petersen is blasted on Twitter by fans. 2015 Rugby World cup - Host nation crashes without reaching quarter-finals. Each and every occasion people all over the world ridiculed England. When you put that behind and move to the present day, England fans now can proudly say the following. "Remember the England" The rugby world cup semi-final was one for the ages. All of England will never forget that game for a long time. Having crashed out from

I wanted to write about Royal vs St' Joseph's game before this. But had butterflies in my stomach preventing it. Honestly thought if Joes to win it would be by very small margin and for Royal were to win by much bigger margin. Game ended with just 5 points difference. I believe score line does not tell the exact story how Royal dominated the game. You might not agree with me , but if you want to verify just watch the replay. It was a great game of rugby where simply showed why schools rugby is way ahead of club rugby in the country. Both sides played really well. Only unfortunate thing was referee Dinka Peries had a very bad day. Lets not talk about it since nothing will change from that. Coming back to the game I really like the way current and recent past Royal teams are playing. They know exactly what to do. What opposition will throw at them. They absorb pressure like sponge. Other teams should thank the game is only 70 minutes this year. Those 10 extra minutes would

On a perfect Saturday evening Royal managed to break hearts of double blues at their home. A game that promised to be a thriller stayed as it is providing spectators worth of their money. Coming in to this penultimate week Trinity, Isipathana, Royal and Wesley were in the title race. I honestly thought Wesley were true contenders to the title this season amid their early season drubbing in the hands of Trinity and the drama that followed. My opinion was both Royal and Wesley were neck to neck while Royal had a slight advantage. There were two major reasons for that. First one is Royal were playing at home and second is they are a 80 minute team. If you followed Royal through out the season , they managed to hang on playing full 80 minutes. As rugby pundits suspected it seemed like Wesley did not have the enough gas to last entire 80 minutes. Wesley started with a bang. As they promised they came with all guns firing, creeping mistakes in to Royal camp. Royal's golden boy o

Woke up early at 4 AM here to watch what I thought would be a regular prize to grab, but end of the day proved otherwise. Evergreen Pathana boys once again  proved that they are not going to go down with out a fight. In-fact they won the war. Last week I commented on Royal rugby page saying that if we ( Royal) play basic rugby that we know, we should win the game. But day ended in disappointing manner leaving me wondering what Royal were trying to do. There were two tries scored of ill passes , most noticeably the last try scored by Sumudu Rankothge which sealed the deal for Pathana. I am sure Sumudu scored much hard working tries to win games , but would take this piece of cake with out thinking twice on any given day. If you watched those two tries scored by Pathana, they were result of Royal trying to spread the ball wide in side  their own 22 leading to fatal mistakes. Royal from the beginning looked to me like did not understood the equation properly. Only small passage in

Even though the Kandy – Havelocks game is done and dusted I thought about writing my bit. If a Kandy fan in mid 2000's went to some magic hibernate sleep and woke up in time for witness last weeks game, I am sure he would go nuts or kill him self. He would rather think that teams have changed their jersey colors or some thing has terribly gone wrong. In fact Kandy rugby has some loop holes now which are penetrated so badly by other teams. By taking nothing away from Havies superb effort, its still below par performance from a team which used to local rugby well over a decade or so. Any way lets focus on teams separately now. Havelocks Compared to last week Havies put up a great show. They were brilliant in all the aspects in the game , except for place kicking. Havies were quick to identify their weakness from last week. Which was obviously the 9/10 combination. They brought Mithun Hapugoda to starting line up as scrum half and he delivered what team needed. I thi

Next week or rather this weekend's game will be the most anticipated one for the rugby league. Defending champions vs wounded lions I would say. So just thought of writing down my views on it. This game should be a thriller. I think there is no doubt about it. But I suspect will this game live up to the expectation we have. Simply because of the fact that Havies doesn't seem to be the same unit which we saw last year, at least for me. Changes for Havelocks As I said in my last post it is evident for me , with the 9/10 combination it's going to be tough for Havies. I respect and understand the fact that you cant match the level of country's best halves combination (Roshan Weeraratne and Fazil Marija). But there is a BIG “if” for that. If other teams can carefully select their combination, they can make it work. Navy showed exactly that during league. Their halves combination of Suranga Pushpakumara and Chanaka Chandimal are hitting it smoothly. Pushpe is