Topic: Stade Francais
European champions Toulouse defeated Stade Francais 34-16 on Saturday thanks to a breathtaking second-half performance in a bruising French Top 14 clash that saw five players yellow-carded. Stade, who went into the game with two wins from two matches, were 16-11 ahead ...
England star Jonny Wilkinson kicked 26 points but was unable to prevent big-spending Toulon from crashing to a 36-31 defeat by Racing-Metro on Friday, the club's second defeat in three matches. Wilkinson kicked eight penalties and converted Argentine flanker Juan Martin Fernandez-Lobbe's ...
European champions Toulouse slid to their first defeat of the French domestic season on Saturday, going down 22-16 at Castres to leave Stade Francais and Bayonne as the only sides boasting 100 percent records after two matches. Toulouse had seen off Agen ...
Perpignan beat champions Clermont 21-13 on Friday to avenge their defeat in May's French Top 14 final, but big-spending Toulon slumped to an embarrassing opening defeat to unheralded Bayonne. Perpignan, who won 13 times at home last season, earned all of their ...
European champions Toulouse ran in six tries while Stade Francais racked up five in French Top 14 romps on Friday, but big-spending Toulon slumped to an embarrassing home defeat to little Bayonne. Toulouse enjoyed a 44-24 cruise over promoted Agen as the ...
Clermont, who won their first French Top 14 final at the 11th attempt last season, tackle Perpignan, the team they defeated to clinch that elusive crown, in Friday's season opener. The two clash after a summer which has seen little transfer action ...
Stade Francais third-row forward Mauro Bergamasco has been ruled out of Italy's tour of South Africa after failing to recover from a hand injury, the Italian Rugby Federation (FIR) announced on Saturday. Bergamasco, who has 84 international caps and is the elder ...
Stade Francais have recalled Ollie Phillips from the England sevens squad in an increasingly ugly spat between clubs and countries over player availability. Phillips, one of the world's top players in the abbreviated game, should have been preparing for the London leg ...
France coach Marc Lievremont on Wednesday called up uncapped Perpignan full-back Jerome Porical for a 30-man squad to tour South Africa and Argentina in June. Porical, 24, and 21-year-old Biarritz flanker Wenceslas Lauret are the sole debutants in a squad that will ...
Italy captain Sergio Parisse was welcomed back into the squad Monday as coach Nick Mallett unveiled his 26-man squad for the upcoming tour of South Africa. Parisse missed the last Six Nations due to a serious knee injury so his return will ...