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Argentina
Argentina
i/ˌɑrdʒənˈtiːnə/, officially the Argentine Republic (Spanish: República Argentina [reˈpuβlika aɾxenˈtina]), is a country in South America, the continent's second largest by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations.
Argentina's continental area is between the Andes mountain range in the west and the Atlantic Ocean in the east. It borders Paraguay and Bolivia to the north, Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast, and Chile to the west and south. Argentine claims over Antarctica, as well as overlapping claims made by Chile and the United Kingdom, are suspended by the Antarctic Treaty of 1961. Argentina also claims the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, which are administered by the United Kingdom as British Overseas Territories.
A recognised middle power, Argentina is Latin America's third-largest economy, with a "very high" rating on the Human development index. Within Latin America, Argentina has the fifth highest nominal GDP per capita and the highest in purchasing power terms. Analysts have argued that the country has a "foundation for future growth due to its market size, levels of foreign direct investment, and percentage of high-tech exports as share of total manufactured goods", and it is classed by investors as middle emerging economy. Argentina is a founding member of the United Nations, Mercosur, the Union of South American Nations, the Organization of Ibero-American States, the World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization, and is one of the G-15 and G-20 major economies.
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Australia
Australia (
/əˈstreɪljə/), officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent as well as the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.
For at least 40,000 years before European settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who belonged to one or more of roughly 250 language groups. After discovery by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five self-governing Crown Colonies were established.
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Canada
Canada ( /ˈkænədə/) is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Spanning over 9,900,000 km2 (3,800,000 sq mi), Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with the United States is the longest land border in the world.
The land that is now Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French colonial expeditions explored, and later settled, along the region's Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy; the Canada Act 1982 severed the vestiges of legal dependence on Britain.
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Cardiff
Cardiff (i/ˈkɑrdɪf/; Welsh: Caerdydd (info) Welsh pronunciation: [kairˈdiːð, kaˑɨrˈdɨːð]) is the capital and largest city in Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for Wales. The unitary authority area's mid 2010 population was estimated to be 341,054, while the population of the Larger Urban Zone was estimated at 861,400 in 2009. Cardiff is a significant tourism centre and the most popular visitor destination in Wales with 18.3 million visitors in 2010. In 2011, Cardiff was ranked 6th in the world in National Geographic's alternative tourist destinations.
The city of Cardiff is the county town of the historic county of Glamorgan (and later South Glamorgan). Cardiff is part of the Eurocities network of the largest European cities. The Cardiff Urban Area covers a slightly larger area outside of the county boundary, and includes the towns of Dinas Powys and Penarth. A small town until the early 19th century, its prominence as a major port for the transport of coal following the arrival of industry in the region contributed to its rise as a major city.
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England
Englandi/ˈɪŋɡlənd/ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, while the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. England's Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science.
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Fiji
Fijii/ˈfiːdʒiː/ (Fijian: Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी), officially the Republic of Fiji (Fijian: Matanitu ko Viti; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी गणराज्यFijī Gaṇarājya), is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about 1,100 nautical miles (2,000 km; 1,300 mi) northeast of New Zealand's North Island. Its closest neighbours are Vanuatu to the west, France's New Caledonia to the southwest, New Zealand's Kermadec to the southeast, Tonga to the east, the Samoas, France's Wallis and Futuna to the northeast and Tuvalu to the north.
The majority of Fiji's islands were formed through volcanic activity started around 150 million years ago. Today, some geothermal activity still occurs on the islands of Vanua Levu and Taveuni. Fiji has been inhabited since the second millennium BC. The country comprises an archipelago of more than 332 islands, of which 110 are permanently inhabited, and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of circa 18,300 square kilometres (7,100 sq mi). The two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, account for 87% of the population of almost 850,000. The former contains Suva, the capital and largest city. Most of Fijians live on Viti Levu's coasts, either in Suva or in smaller urban centres. Viti Levu's interior is sparsely inhabited due to its terrain.
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France
France (Englishi/ˈfræns/ FRANSS or /ˈfrɑːns/ FRAHNSS; French: [fʁɑ̃s] (
listen)), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is often referred to as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its territory. It is the largest western European country and it possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world, covering 11,035,000 km2 (4,260,000 sq mi), just behind that of the United States (11,351,000 km2 / 4,383,000 sq mi).
Over the past 500 years, France has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military and political influence in Europe and around the world. During the 17th and 18th centuries, France colonised great parts of North America and Southeast Asia; during the 19th and early 20th centuries, France built the second largest colonial empire of the time, including large portions of North, West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and many Caribbean and Pacific Islands.
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Ireland
Coordinates: 53°20′N 08°00′W / 53.333°N 8°W / 53.333; -8
Ireland (pronounced [ˈaɪrlənd] ( listen); Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ( listen); Ulster Scots: Airlann or Airlan) is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth. To its east is the larger island of Great Britain, from which it is separated by the Irish Sea.
Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.4 million. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
Relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain epitomise Ireland's geography with several navigable rivers extending inland. The island has lush vegetation, a product of its mild but changeable oceanic climate, which avoids extremes in temperature. Thick woodlands covered the island until the 17th century. Today, it is one of the most deforested areas in Europe. There are twenty-six extant mammal species native to Ireland.
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Italy
Italyi/ˈɪtəli/ (Italian: Italia [iˈtaːlja]), officially the Italian Republic or the Republic of Italy (Italian: Repubblica italiana), is a unitary parliamentary republic in south-central Europe. To the north, it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south, it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia–the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea–and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some 301,338 km2 (116,347 sq mi) and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.6 million inhabitants, it is the fifth most populous country in Europe, and the 23rd most populous in the world.
Rome, the capital of Italy, was for centuries a political and religious centre of Western civilisation as the capital of the Roman Empire and site of the Holy See. After the decline of the Roman Empire, Italy endured numerous invasions by foreign peoples, from Germanic tribes such as the Lombards and Ostrogoths, to the Byzantines and later, the Normans, among others. Centuries later, Italy became the birthplace of Maritime republics and the Renaissance, an immensely fruitful intellectual movement that would prove to be integral in shaping the subsequent course of European thought.
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Japan
Japan
i/dʒəˈpæn/ (Japanese: 日本 Nihon or Nippon; formally 日本国 
Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, literally the State of Japan) is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku, together accounting for ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with over 127 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.
Archaeological research indicates that people lived in Japan as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other nations followed by long periods of isolation has characterized Japan's history. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, victory in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I allowed Japan to expand its empire during a period of increasing militarism. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since adopting its revised constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected parliament called the Diet.
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Leicester
Coordinates: 52°38′03″N 1°08′19″W / 52.63422°N 1.13852°W / 52.63422; -1.13852
Leicester (/lɛstər/ LESS-tər pronunciation (help·info)) is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest. In 2010, the population of the Leicester unitary authority was estimated at 306,600, the second highest in the region, whilst 441,213 people lived in the wider Leicester Urban Area in 2006, making Leicester the tenth most populous settlement in the United Kingdom and the UK's fourteenth largest urban area. It is the largest city in the East Midlands yet has the second largest urban area in the region behind Nottingham Urban Area. Eurostat's Larger Urban Zone listed the population of the area at 772,400 people as of 2004.
Ancient Roman pavements and baths remain in Leicester from its early settlement as Ratae Corieltauvorum, a Roman military outpost in a region inhabited by the Celtic Corieltauvi tribe. Following the demise of Roman society the early medieval Ratae Corieltauvorum is shrouded in obscurity, but when the settlement was captured by the Danes it became one of five fortified towns important to the Danelaw. The name "Leicester" is thought to derive from the words castra of the "Ligore", meaning camp of the dwellers on the (river) Legro. Leicester appears in the Domesday Book as "Ledecestre". Leicester continued to grow throughout the Early Modern period as a market town, although it was the Industrial Revolution that facilitated a process of rapid unplanned urbanisation in the area.
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London Wasps
London Wasps is an English professional rugby union team. The men's first team, which forms London Wasps, was derived from Wasps Football Club who were formed in 1867 at the now defunct Eton and Middlesex Tavern in North London, at the turn of professionalism in 1995. London Wasps play at Adams Park, which is located in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
London Wasps have won at least one of each of the major European competitions or knock-out tournaments in the past decade. The team compete in the English club competition, the Aviva Premiership, the Anglo-Welsh competition the LV= Cup and the European knock-out competition, the Amlin Challenge Cup.
They won the Heineken Cup in 2003–04 and 2006–07, the Anglo-Welsh Cup in 1999, 2000 and 2006 and the Aviva Premiership in 1990, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008.
In May 2012 the Wasps announced a new deal with apparel manufacturer Kukri through to the 2015/16 season. The new home strip is to be used for the first tim in mid July at the JPMorgan Asset Management Sevens tournament, with a new away strip to be revealed in August during the lead up to the Aviva Premiership
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New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses ‒ that of the North and South Islands ‒ as well as numerous smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres (900 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans.
During its long isolation, New Zealand developed a distinctive biodiversity of both animal and plant life. Most notable are the large number of unique bird species, many of which became extinct after the arrival of humans and introduced mammals. With a mild maritime climate, the land was mostly covered in forest. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions caused by the Pacific and Indo-Australian Plates clashing beneath the earth's surface.
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Samoa
Samoa (i/səˈmoʊ.ə/; Samoan: Sāmoa, IPA: [ˌsaːˈmoa]), officially the Independent State of Samoa (Samoan: Malo Sa'oloto Tuto'atasi o Sāmoa), formerly known as Western Samoa, is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in Polynesia, Savai'i. The capital city, Apia, and Faleolo International Airport are situated on the island of Upolu.
Samoa was admitted to the United Nations on 15 December 1976. The entire island group, inclusive of American Samoa, was called Navigators Islands by European explorers before the 20th century because of the Samoans' seafaring skills.
The oldest date so far from pre-historic remains in Samoa has been calculated by New Zealand scientists to a likely true age of circa 3,000 years ago from a Lapita site at Mulifanua during the 1970s.
The origins of the Samoans is closely linked to modern research about Polynesia in various scientific disciplines such as genetics, linguistics and anthropology. Scientific research is ongoing although a number of different theories exist; including one proposing that the Samoans originated from Austronesian predecessors during the terminal eastward Lapita expansion period from Southeast Asia and Melanesia between 2,500 and 1,500 BCE. The Samoan origins are currently being reassessed due to new scientific evidence and carbon dating findings from 2003 and onwards.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba ([ˈalˠ̪apə] listen (help·info))) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. In addition to the mainland, Scotland constitutes over 790 islands including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.
Edinburgh, the country's capital and second largest city, is one of Europe's largest financial centres. Edinburgh was the hub of the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century, which transformed Scotland into one of the commercial, intellectual and industrial powerhouses of Europe. Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, was once one of the world's leading industrial cities and now lies at the centre of the Greater Glasgow conurbation. Scottish waters consist of a large sector of the North Atlantic and the North Sea, containing the largest oil reserves in the European Union. This has given Aberdeen, the third largest city in Scotland, the title of Europe's oil capital.
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South Africa
Coordinates: 30°S 25°E / 30°S 25°E / -30; 25
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of Africa. It is divided into nine provinces and has 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline. To the north of the country lie the neighbouring territories of Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an enclave surrounded by South African territory.
South Africa is multi-ethnic and has diverse cultures and languages. Eleven official languages are recognised in the constitution. Two of these languages are of European origin: South African English and Afrikaans, a language which originated mainly from Dutch that is spoken by the majority of white and Coloured South Africans. Though English is commonly used in public and commercial life, it is only the fifth most-spoken home language. All ethnic and language groups have political representation in the country's constitutional democracy comprising a parliamentary republic; unlike most parliamentary republics, the positions of head of state and head of government are merged in a parliament-dependent President.
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Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is a sovereign state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) of ocean in the South Pacific. Fifty-two of the islands are inhabited.
The Kingdom stretches over a distance of about 800 kilometres (500 mi) in a north-south line located at about a third of the distance from New Zealand to Hawaii.
Tonga also became known as the Friendly Islands because of the friendly reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit there in 1773. He happened to arrive at the time of the ʻinasi festival, the yearly donation of the first fruits to the Tuʻi Tonga, the islands' paramount chief, and received an invitation to the festivities. According to the writer William Mariner, in reality the chiefs had wanted to kill Cook during the gathering, but could not agree on a plan.
Tonga is also the only island nation in the region to have avoided formal colonisation. In 2010, Tonga took a decisive step towards becoming a fully functioning constitutional monarchy after legislative reforms paved the way for its first ever fully representative elections which resulted in the election of Noble Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō as its first democratically elected Prime Minister.
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Wales
Walesi/ˈweɪlz/ (Welsh: Cymru;Welsh pronunciation: [ˈkəm.rɨ] ( listen)) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain,bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km2 (8,023 sq mi). Wales has over 1,200 km (750 mi) of coastline, including its offshore islands; the largest, Anglesey (Ynys Môn), is also the largest island in the Irish Sea. Wales is largely mountainous, with its highest peaks in the north and central areas, especially in Snowdonia (Eryri), which contains Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), its highest summit.
During the Iron Age and early medieval period, Wales was inhabited by the Celtic Britons. A distinct Welsh national identity emerged in the centuries after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, and Wales is regarded as one of the modern Celtic nations today. Gruffydd ap Llywelyn was recognised as King of Wales in 1057. Llywelyn ap Gruffydd's death in 1282 marked the completion of Edward I of England's conquest of Wales. The castles and town walls erected to ensure its permanence are now UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Owain Glyndŵr briefly restored independence to what was to become modern Wales, in the early 15th century. Wales was subsequently annexed by England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542 since when, excluding those matters now devolved to Wales, English law has been the legal system of Wales and England. Distinctive Welsh politics developed in the 19th century. Welsh Liberalism, exemplified in the early 20th century by Lloyd George, was displaced by the growth of socialism and the Labour Party. Welsh national feeling grew over the century; Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and The Welsh Language Society in 1962. The National Assembly for Wales, created in 1999 following a referendum, holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters.
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Aaron Mauger
Aaron Joseph Douglas Mauger (last name pronounced "Major"; born 29 November 1980 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a former rugby union player who played at centre for Leicester Tigers. He previously played first five-eighths and second five-eighths for Canterbury (Air New Zealand Cup), the Crusaders (Super Rugby) and the New Zealand All Blacks. He joined the Leicester Tigers at the end of the 2007 Rugby World Cup after signing a two-and-a-half-year contract with the English side.
Mauger captained the New Zealand Under-21 team to success in the International Under-21 Tournaments in 2000 and 2001. He made his All Blacks début in 2001.
He is the younger brother of Nathan Mauger and his uncles are former All Blacks Graeme Bachop and Stephen Bachop. His great-uncle, Ivan Mauger, is a former six time Speedway World Champion.
In March 2010, Mauger announced his retirement due to a back injury. He had attended clinics in the United Kingdom and Germany in his bid to overcome the injury but had been unable to complete training sessions without breaking down. In June 2010 he is returning with his family to live in his native New Zealand where he hopes to remain involved with rugby union in a coaching role.
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Adam Thompstone
Adam Thompstone (born 4 September 1987) is a rugby union player who plays at Wing for Leicester Tigers in the English Aviva Premiership.
Thompstone was signed by the London Irish Academy. His debut first-team start was against Worcester Warriors in the EDF Energy Cup in 2008. A serious ankle injury in October 2009 kept him out of the side until January 2011.
Thompstone signed with Leicester Tigers for the 2012–13 season.
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Alesana Tuilagi
Alesana "Alex" Tuilagi (born 24 February 1981) is a Samoan rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Leicester Tigers in the English club competition, the Aviva Premiership, and has appeared numerous times for his national team Samoa. He previously played for Parma in Italy. As an incredibly strong player, Tuilagi uses his blend of pace and power to good effect, proving a nightmare for many defences.
The Tuilagi family has strong connections with Leicester Tigers; Alex's brothers Henry, Anitelea (Andy), and Fereti (Freddie) are all former players and two younger brothers, Vavae and Manu Tuilagi both played in a game for Leicester Tigers against the Classic All-Blacks, on the 25 May 2008.
Whilst at Parma, whom he played with for two seasons, he was equal second top try scorer of the league for the 2003–04 season, with 12 tries in total for the season. He helped them get to the semi-finals of both the domestic competition, and the ParkerPen Shield. He made his debut for Samoa in a 2003 Rugby World Cup qualifier against Fiji in June 2002.
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Alexander Obolensky
Prince Alexander Sergeevich Obolensky (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Оболенский; 17 February 1916 — 29 March 1940) was a Russian Rurikid prince and an international rugby union footballer who played for England. He was popularly known simply as "The Prince" by many sports fans.
A member of the Rurik Dynasty, he was born in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) on 17 February 1916 and was the son of Prince Serge Obolensky, an officer in the Czar's Imperial Horse Guards, and his wife Princess Lubov' (née Naryshkina). Their name derived from the Russian town of Obolensk. They fled Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917, settling in Muswell Hill, London.
Obolensky was educated at The Ashe boys' preparatory school, Etwall, and Trent College, Long Eaton, both in Derbyshire, before going to Brasenose College, Oxford in Michaelmas 1934, where he held a College Exhibition and studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He gained a Fourth Class degree in 1938. At Oxford he earned two rugby blues representing Oxford University RFC as a wing/three-quarter. Having previously played for Chesterfield RUFC whilst still at school, he played for Leicester Football Club between 1934 and 1939, as well as Rosslyn Park F.C.. His selection for England caused a stir because he was not a British citizen, but he gained British Citizenship in 1936.
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Andy Forsyth
Andrew Forsyth is a young English rugby-union player, from Clayton West, Huddersfield, United Kingdom. He plays as both a centre and fullback. He has represented England at both U16 and U18 level and is currently playing for Leicester Tigers as part of their rugby academy squad. He is one of the brightest young rugby talents in the United Kingdom, despite being diabetic.
Forsyth made his first team debut for Tigers from the bench against Northampton Saints in October 2009. He started at centre in the game against South Africa in November 2009.
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Andy Goode
Andrew James Goode (born 3 April 1980 in Coventry) is a rugby union footballer who plays fly-half (and occasionally fullback) for Worcester and England.
Goode attended King Henry VIII School in Coventry and Bromsgrove School in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He started playing rugby union at the age of five at Barkers Butts, before moving to Nuneaton at 12. Up until then he had played at scrum half but soon found out he enjoyed the game better at fly-half. He also played for Warwickshire and the Midlands. He joined Coventry aged 16.
In 1998 Goode was selected to play for England Schools U18 and has since represented England at U21 level, playing at the 2000 SANZAR tournament in New Zealand, as well as appearing 5 times for England A in 2001 and 2002. He has now also played 14 times for England.
Goode joined Leicester Tigers as a youngster, despite his youth he played a substantial part in Tigers record four successive Premiership titles and also won two Heineken Cup winners medals. He later moved to Saracens and after moved back to his old club Leicester in 2003.
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Austin Healey
Austin Sean Healey (born 26 October 1973 in Wallasey, Cheshire) is a former English rugby union player, who played as a utility back for Leicester Tigers, and has represented the England national rugby union team and the British Lions.
He has 51 England caps and 2 Lions caps. He has played for England at scrum half, fly-half, fullback and wing, and has often been used as a replacement (or substitute) because of his versatility. He is a famously competitive and "outspoken" character, gaining the nickname "The Leicester Lip".
In 2008, he took part in Strictly Come Dancing (Series 6) which started on the 20th September. He made it to the quarter-finals, with dance partner Erin Boag.
Healey revealed on Strictly Come Dancing that he has four daughters; Ellie-Mae born 2001, Daisy in 2003, and twins, Betsy and Bibi-dee (named after his late mother), born early 2008.
He was educated at St Anselm's College, Birkenhead (Edmund Rice Trust) and at Leeds Polytechnic. He went to Bidston Avenue Primary school in Birkenhead.
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Ben Herring
Ben Herring (born 14 March 1980, Auckland, New Zealand) is a former rugby union player who played for Leicester Tigers in the Guinness Premiership. His position is flanker. Herring missed out a 2007 Super 14 rugby contract with any New Zealand Super 14 team, and negotiated a move to join the Leicester Tigers in early 2007. In April 2009, Herring retired on medical advice after suffering a series of concussions.
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Ben Kay
Benedict James Kay MBE (born 14 December 1975) is a retired English international rugby union footballer who played Second row forward for Leicester Tigers and England.
Kay was born in Liverpool, the son of Lord Justice of Appeal Sir John William Kay (1943–2004), which later earned him the nickname "M'lud". Kay first started playing rugby for Waterloo minis going on to play for the Waterloo first team.
Kay played for his school (Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby) and has also played for Queensland University. He represented England in the 1996 Students World Cup in South Africa and at U18, U19 and U21 level. He attended Loughborough University, where he obtained a degree in Sports Science.
Kay joined Leicester Tigers from Waterloo in 1999 and first played during the World Cup, with Tigers' normal Second rows Martin Johnson and Fritz van Heerden away with England and South Africa respectively. With the help of Johnson and van Heerden, he developed his game, becoming a highly-rated middle line-out jumper, like van Heerden. He was a member of Tigers' Heineken Cup winning sides in 2001 and 2002 as his international career blossomed.
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Ben Pienaar
Ben Pienaar (born 10 September 1986) is a rugby union player for Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership.
Born in South Africa, Pienaar previously played for Langley School, Loddon before moving to Gresham's School and for England Schools,
He represented Norfolk from U-14s to U-16s, then was capped by England at U-16 and U-19 level.
Outside rugby, Pienaar is also a past Junior National Champion at judo.
Following injury and suspension of the more established number eights at Tigers, Pienaar had an opportunity for a run in the first team earning the praise of the coaches in the process. Pienaar was added to Tigers Heineken Cup squad for the knock-out stages of the 2008–09 competition.
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Ben Woods
Benjamin Woods (born 9 June 1982 in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England) is a rugby union player for Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership as an openside flanker.
Woods started his professional career at Newcastle Falcons in 2003 but suffered a badly broken leg at the end of his first season and was sidelined for 18 months. On his return to the game he quickly made his mark on the Falcons first team and earned a call up to play for the England Saxons in the 2006 Churchill Cup.
He was also selected for 2007 Churchill Cup. Woods played in the Saxons side that defeated Ireland A on 1 February 2008 at Welford Road.
Woods left the Falcons and moved to Leicester Tigers in 2008 along with Toby Flood.
Injury to Lewis Moody allowed Woods to make his mark at Leicester and he played in 23 games for them in his first season, culminating in a try scoring appearance in the 2009 Heineken Cup Final.
Woods started in all three games of the 2009 Churchill Cup.
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Ben Youngs
Benjamin Ryder Youngs (born 5 September 1989 in Norwich, England) is an English rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Leicester Tigers and England.
His older brother Tom Youngs is also a rugby player, currently on loan to Leicester Tigers as a hooker from Nottingham RFC, and his father Nick Youngs played scrum-half for both Leicester and England.
Former Tigers and England utility back Austin Healey referred to Youngs as a potential world beater.
Youngs made his Leicester Tigers first team début against Argentina in 2007 and became Leicester’s youngest ever league player when he came off the bench against Bristol. Later that season, he played in the final of the 2006–07 Guinness Premiership. Youngs was nominated as the 2008–09 Guinness Premiership Discovery of the Season award.
He was instrumental in their 22–17 defeat of the Springboks in a Friendly match on the 6 November 2009. Due to injury to squadmate Harry Ellis, he was able to hold down a starting place in the 2009–10 season. In February 2010, Youngs signed a new contract. His team-mates voted him Leicester Tigers Player of the Season for 2009/10. In a season littered with awards, he also picked up the Landrover Discovery of the Season award. He crowned off the season by playing in the 2009-10 Guinness Premiership final victory over Saracens.
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Benjamin Kayser
Benjamin Kayser (born 26 July 1984 in Paris, France) is a French Rugby union player who plays as hooker for Clermont Auvergne in the French Top 14.
He rejoined Stade Français at the end of the 2008/2009 season from Leicester Tigers in the Guinness Premiership, who he joined during the 2007–08 season. Kayser signed for Castres Olympique for the 2010–11 Top 14 season. In February 2011, Kayser signed a 3 year contract with ASM Clermont Auvergne.
He has played for France at International level, winning his first cap in their summer tour against Australia in 2008.
In 2010, he was selected in the French Barbarians squad to play Tonga on 26 November.
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Bernard Gadney
Bernard Cecil Gadney (16 July 1909 - 15 November 2000) was an English rugby union footballer who played as a scrum-half for Leicester Tigers, England and the British Lions. Gadney won 14 England caps between 1932 and 1938 and was captain on eight occasions.
Born in Oxford, he was educated at Dragon School and Stowe. His brother Cyril Gadney was an international rugby referee and President of the RFU. He made his Leicester debut in 1929 and went on to make 170 appearances for the club. He made his England debut v Ireland in 1932, and was appointed captain in 1934, becoming Leicester's first England captain, and leading England to the Triple Crown. In 1936 he led England to a win against the All Blacks at Twickenham - a game known as Obolensky's game. Later in the same year, he led a Great Britain team to a 10-0 winning series against Argentina.
After retiring from international rugby he became headmaster of Malsis School, a prep school. During the Second World War he served as an officer in the Royal Navy.
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Billy Twelvetrees
William Wesley "Billy" Twelvetrees (born 15 November 1988) is a rugby union footballer who plays centre or fly-half for Leicester Tigers.
Within the Tigers squad he is nicknamed 36. This comes from club captain Geordan Murphy saying 'Twelvetrees', but with his Irish accent it sounded like 'twelve threes'... and twelve threes are thirty six.
As a junior, Twelvetrees played for Pulborough, Horsham and Haywards Heath. He joined the Leicester Tigers academy from Leicester Lions in 2007, and moved to Bedford Blues for the 2008–09 season. After an outstanding season for Bedford, in which he scored 18 tries, 16 conversions and 13 penalties, he re-signed for Tigers in 2009.
He made his first appearance for Leicester in the Heineken Cup on 11 October, filling in for Dan Hipkiss, who was ruled out just prior to kick-off. Despite making his debut with just 10-minutes' notice, he won Man of the Match, scoring a try in a 14-point haul. Unfortunately, he was injured in his next match and ruled out for a large part of the season. He went on to make just six appearances in 2009–10, scoring four tries.
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Bob Rowell
Robert Errington "Bob" Rowell (born 29 August 1939) is a former English rugby union player; a lock forward. He was capped twice by England; both times against Wales, the first on 18 January 1964 in the 1964 Five Nations Championship (a 6-6 draw at Twickenham Stadium), and again a year later on 16 January 1965 (a 14-3 loss at the National Stadium, Cardiff Arms Park). He made 355 appearances for the Leicester first XV between 1962 and 1978; only Martin Johnson has played more times for Leicester at lock. He was Leicester captain for the 1976-1977 season.
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Boris Stankovich
Boris Stankovich (born 9 January 1980 in New Zealand), is a rugby union player for Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership and his position of choice is as a prop.
While born in New Zealand, Stankovich was capped for England at under-19 and under-21 level before moving to play in France.
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Calum Green
Calum Green (born 15 July 1990 in Norfolk, England) is an English rugby union footballer. He plays lock for Leicester Tigers.
He was dual-registered for Nottingham and Leicester Tigers, which enabled him to get game time in the Championship. He made five appearances for the Tigers first team in 2009–10, notably against London Irish.
His Tigers debut match was a friendly against the Classic All Blacks in 2008. Despite not yet being 20, Green also played for the Leicester Tigers side in their 2009 friendly against South Africa at Welford Road, which the Tigers won 22–17. His first league appearance was a home win against Saracens in March 2009.
He joined the first team squad for the 2010–11 season.
Green has represented England U16A, and England U20, in the 6 Nations and IRB Junior World Championship, where England came fourth.
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Chalkie White
Herbert Victor "Chalkie" White (16 January 1929 — 24 January 2005) was an English rugby union player and later coach, instrumental in the success of Leicester Tigers.
White was born in Carlisle and served in the Royal Navy before becoming a schoolteacher. He played scrum-half for Old Creightonians, Penzance & Newlyn, Camborne RFC and Leicester Tigers before his career was ended after he was diagnosed with Ménière’s disease and lost his sense of balance.
He thus turned to coaching Leicester, while teaching at Nottingham High School. At this time the game was still amateur, and coaching frowned upon as "cheating", but White installed a professional attitude at Leicester. This took the Tigers to John Player Cup wins in 1979, 1980 and 1981, and losing finalists in 1978 and 1983 (at the time the cup was the only organised competition). The Leicester team including such luminaries as Paul Dodge, Peter Wheeler and Clive Woodward. Woodward would later coach England to victory in the 2003 World Cup.
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Christophe Laussucq
Christophe Laussucq (born May 20, 1973 in Bordeaux) is a retired rugby union player and current coach for CA Brive in the Top 14.
Christophe Laussucq's position of choice was scrum-half. He earned three caps for the France national team, making his debut on April 10, 1999 against Scotland. He retired from playing at the end of the 2007–08 season spent with the Leicester Tigers in the Guinness Premiership.
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Clive Woodward
Sir Clive Ronald Woodward OBE (born 6 January 1956) is an English former rugby union player and coach. He was coach of the England team from 1997 to 2004, managing them to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup. He is currently the British Olympic Association's Director of Elite Performance.
Woodward was born in Ely in Cambridgeshire, the son of an RAF pilot. He started school at Corstorphine in Edinburgh and was later sent to the school ship HMS Conway, as his father disapproved of his ambition to play professional football. At Conway, he played rugby union at centre alongside fly-half Iain Duncan Smith, who would later become leader of the Conservative Party. According to Woodward, he was not selected to play for the Welsh Schoolboys side, but he was good enough to play rugby union for a Welsh school.
According to his autobiography, he applied to do a law degree at Durham University, but was turned down even though he was good enough and instead, he found a job at a London bank.[citation needed]
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Craig Joiner
Craig Joiner was born April 21, 1974 in Glasgow, Scotland. Educated at Merchiston Castle School, he won 25 caps playing on the wing for the Scottish rugby union side between 1994 and 2000.
He joined Leicester Tigers, and often played at outside centre, but returned to Scotland in 2000.
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Craig Newby
Craig Newby (born 27 July 1979) is a New Zealand rugby union footballer. He currently plays for Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership.
Newby spent the bulk of his career in New Zealand, playing for Otago, the Otago Highlanders, North Harbour and the Auckland Blues. He had a short stint with Newcastle Falcons in 2002. He made three appearances for New Zealand before moving to England in 2008 to play with Leicester.
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Dan Hipkiss
Daniel James Hipkiss (born 4 June 1982 in Ipswich) is a professional Rugby Union player who currently plays at Centre for Bath Rugby. Hipkiss has represented England at U16, U17, U18, U21 and England A. His full England début came versus Wales in a World Cup warm up match at Twickenham on 4 August 2007.
He went to school at Uppingham School, where he was captain of the firsts. He was in Farleigh house.
Having overcome a career-threatening injury to his left knee in November 1999, Hipkiss made his first start for the Tigers' U21s against Leeds on 9 November 2001, scoring a try on his debut. He was called into the first team squad for summer training in 2002. He quickly became a regular member of the successful Tigers 2002–03 U21 team, and captained a Leicester side in the 2006 Middlesex Sevens at Twickenham. He was named Tigers Players' Player of the Year in 2006–07.
2008–09 saw the Tigers feature in two finals – Heineken Cup and Guinness Premiership, the latter of which they won.
During the 2009–10 season, Hipkiss suffered an injury midway through the season, but returned to play for Tigers' A-league side in their semi-final against the Saracens' A-league side. He scored a try, and the team won 23–11. He went on to score a further try in the final, where the team won the 'A' league.
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Daniel Bowden
Daniel Bowden is a New Zealand Rugby Union player that plays rugby for Aviva Premiership side London Irish.
Bowden played his first match for the Highlanders on Friday 15 February 2008 when he started against the Reds in Brisbane, he kicked one penalty for the match. Since then he went on to play a further 10 matches for the southern super 14 side in 2008, starting in 8 of them. Bowden finished the season with 23 points. In 2009 Bowden returned to the Highlanders franchise, this time he had more experience and understood the higher level of rugby. In the 2009 season he has started in all of the matches, either playing first-five or second-five. Known as very good attacker with quick footwork and a great passing game, he scored more than 50 points in the 2009 season. Bowden was picked up in the draft by the Crusaders after the Blues picked up Brett and Kirkpatrick, so he will in the 2010 Crusaders squad most likely to be Dan Carter's back up.
After an injury in the preseason, Bowden missed the first 5 games of the season, then starred in his debut for the Crusaders against the Cheetahs playing at flyhalf and was named Man of the Match. He went on to form an exciting partnership playing Second five-eighth outside All Black Dan Carter, and started in the semi-final against the Bulls in Soweto.
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Darren Garforth
Darren Garforth (born 9 April 1966) is a former international rugby union footballer who played tighthead prop for Leicester Tigers and England.
Garforth was born in Coventry, signed for Leicester Tigers and made his Leicester debut against Northampton Saints in 1991. He would go on to make over 300 appearances for the club. Wearing the C shirt, as part of the ABC club with Graham Rowntree (A) and Richard Cockerill (B). He was an important part of Tigers side which won the English league four times and the Heineken Cup twice.
Garforth made his England debut on 15 March 1997 against Wales. Garforth was eventually dropped from the England side in favour of Phil Vickery, but would continue to make some caps, his 25th and final cap coming against Italy in 2000.
He was offered the chance to tour North America with England in 2001 but turned down the opportunity, which went to Leicester team-mate Ricky Nebbett instead.
After leaving Leicester in 2003, he moved to second division Nuneaton as player-coach. Tigers signed England prop Julian White as a replacement.
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Darren Morris
Darren Morris (born 24 September 1974) is a retired Wales international rugby union player who also represented the British and Irish Lions. He played as a loosehead prop.
Morris was born in Pontypridd, and educated at Aberdare Boys School, Neath College and the University of Glamorgan. He played tighthead for Neath, but moved to Swansea in 1998, moving to loosehead when Ben Evans arrived. Morris then joined Leicester Tigers, and finding competition for places with England props Graham Rowntree and Julian White, improved his fitness levels. However, Tigers did not offer to renew his contract at the end of the 2006 season. Morris signed for Worcester Warriors and made 64 appearances for the club. In July 2009 it was announced he was leaving Worcester at the end of the season. He joined Cardiff Blues. In January 2010, Morris signed for Northampton Saints until the end of the season as a replacement for Santiago Gonzalez Bonorino. Morris then joined Hartpury College in a player-coach role before announcing his retirement from playing at the end of the 2011-12 season.
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Dave Lougheed
David Cameron Lougheed (born April 11, 1968 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian former rugby union footballer, playing at wing and centre. He was considered large for a winger, being 1.88m tall and weighing 91 kg though his quick feet and amazing hands made up any imbalances.
Lougheed was educated at Queen's University, Canada, starting his career playing at Toronto Welsh and then Balmy Beach.
In 1990, Lougheed made his debut for Canada against Argentina and went on to gain 34 caps. Despite retiring from the international game after the 1999 World Cup, he returned to play in the 2003 World Cup.
In 1998, Lougheed signed for Leicester Tigers, playing his debut against Harlequins. In 2000 he announced his retirement, however shortly afterwards signed a one-week contract with injury stricken Gloucester.
Lougheed now lives in Calgary, Alberta and coaches the 2006 Western Canadian University Rugby Champions, the University of Calgary Dinos Rugby team.
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Dorian West
Dorian Edward West MBE (born October 5, 1967 in Wrexham, Wales) nicknamed "Nobby" is a former English international rugby union footballer.
Born in Wrexham, his family moved to England when he was young. Before professionalism, he was a police officer with the Leicestershire Constabulary's armed response unit.
He made his debut at Leicester Tigers and played for them as a flanker but a move to Nottingham in 1991 saw him convert to hooker. He rejected the offer of a trial for Wales.
He moved back to Leicester in 1996 where he became an understudy to Richard Cockerill. His form improved and he was noticed by England coach Clive Woodward during matches when Cockerill was away on international duty. This resulted in him being picked on the England bench for the 1998 match against France, coming on to replace Cockerill. The next week Cockerill was injured, but second-choice Mark Regan who had been injured for the match against France was fit again, so West was again selected on the bench, and came onto win his second cap.
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Doug Prentice
Frank Douglas "Doug" Prentice (1898 – 3 October 1962) was an English rugby union player and administrator.
He played club rugby for Leicester. He won three caps for England and was the captain of the British Lions in their tour of New Zealand and Australia in 1930 and manager of the 1936 British Lions tour to Argentina.
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Douglas Kendrew
Major General Sir Douglas Anthony Kendrew, KCMG, CB, CBE, DSO & Three Bars, (22 July 1910 – 28 February 1989) was a British rugby player and military officer, who became Governor of Western Australia 1963-1974.
Douglas Kendrew was born in Barnstaple, Devon, England in 1910. As "Joe Kendrew", he played rugby union for England 10 times and was captain of the team in 1935. He was a member of the 1930 British Lions tour of Australasia but did not represent the Lions in any of the test matches.
He became a lieutenant with the Royal Leicestershire Regiment in 1931 and was promoted to major in 1941. During World War II he served in North Africa and Italy in 1943 and served as a Brigade Commander in Italy, Greece and the Middle East between 1944 and 1946. His leadership and bravery saw the rare distinction of being awarded the Distinguished Service Order four times. During the 1950s, Sir Douglas was the Commander of the British Brigade, Commonwealth Division in the Korean War and General Officer Commanding and Director of Operations in Cyprus. In September 1958 he survived an assassination attempt by EOKA fighters which killed one of his escorts.
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Dusty Hare
William Henry "Dusty" Hare MBE (born 29 November 1952) is a former international England rugby union footballer, who played fullback.
Hare currently holds the world record for points scored in a first class rugby career with 7,337 points.
He was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and attended the Magnus Grammar School (now Magnus Church of England School).
Hare played for Nottingham R.F.C. before joining Leicester Tigers and playing for nearly 400 games for them.
He made his England debut 16 March 1974 in a match against Wales, and played his final game ten years later on, having gained 25 caps. He toured with the British Lions to New Zealand in 1983.
He retired from club rugby after the 1989 cup final loss to Bath, and is now the chief scout at Northampton Saints. Previous to this job, Hare was a farmer in South Clifton, Nottinghamshire and had been since a young man carrying on the family business. However, Hare sold the farm in 2001 to take a full time job at Leicester Tigers working for the academy and latterly as head scout.
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Ed Slater
Edward Slater (born 1 August 1988 in Kirby Muxloe, Leicester) is an English rugby union player for Leicester Tigers. He plays as a lock and as a flanker.
Essentially a lock, his work-rate and physical presence (1.97m, 116 kg) have helped him earn rave reviews at second row following an injury crisis at Leicester.
He began his rugby career at Milton Keynes Rugby Club before moving to Australia where he established himself at Eastern Suburbs RUFC, Sydney, NSW. He has also enjoyed a stint with the NSW Waratahs, where he was signed with a Junior contract. His rise to prominence began when he joined Nottingham and his performances in the Championship playoffs and for the Tigers' development side earned him a move to his hometown club, Leicester Tigers in the summer of 2010.
He provided excellent cover for long-term injuries to England international locks Louis Deacon and Geoff Parling and the retirements of Ben Kay and Richard Blaze. Slater's consistent performances earned him Tigers' Player of the Month award in October 2010. He helped Tigers top the leaderboard and make it to the Aviva Premiership final in the 2010-2011 season. Since then, Slater has gone on to claim his first call up to the England Saxons squad and claimed his first cap against Scotland A.
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Ephraim Taukafa
Ephraim Taukafa (born 26 June 1976) is a Tongan rugby union footballer. He currently plays for France Stade Montois in France. Previously he played for North Harbour in New Zealand, Northern Suburbs in Australia, Leicester Tigers in England and Oyonnax (France) and Lyon OU in France. He played for the Tonga national team at the 2003, 2007 and 2011 Rugby World Cup.
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Freddie Tuilagi
Fereti Tuilagi (born June 9, 1971 in Apia, Samoa) is a former Samoan rugby union Rugby player who previously played rugby league for Halifax Blue Sox and St. Helens. He played as a wing or centre and now is currently retired. His first name is often anglicised to Freddie, his surname pronounced "Tuilangi".
Tuilagi is the oldest of seven brothers: Henry, Olotuli, Alesana, Anitelea, Vavae and Manu. All but Olotuli have played for Leicester Tigers with the youngest two Manu & Vavae just come out of academy.Freddie currently coaches children at his very own rugby skills course named 'Tuilagi Rugby Skills Courses'.
Freddie gained his first international experience playing for Samoa on the 1991 tour to New Zealand. He was also selected for Samoa’s 1991 Rugby World Cup squad but did not play in any of the matches.
Between 1992 and 1995 he toured with Samoa to Australia and South Africa, and was included in their 1995 Rugby World Cup squad. He played against South Africa in the quarter final.
After the 1995 world cup, Tuilagi turned professional for the Halifax Rugby League team, making 57 Super League appearances for them in two years, scoring an impressive 26 tries. In 1999 he joined St Helens RL and made 35 appearances, scoring eleven tries.
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Fritz van Heerden
Fritz van Heerden (born 29 June 1970) is a former South African rugby union player who played international rugby for the Springboks, and club rugby with Western Province and Leicester Tigers.
He joined Leicester Tigers in 19, following fellow South African Joel Stransky, and joining up with Martin Johnson, and replacing Matt Poole who acquired a knee injury at about the same time with Dean Richards (normally a number eight) playing lock. Also able to play flanker, he complemented Johnson's more powerful play with mobility, but perhaps more importantly he pioneered the contesting of the opposition's line-out throws.
He returned to South Africa in 1999 to try to play for his country in the 1999 World Cup, and was drafted into the side late as a replacement for Selborne Boome, playing against Spain. After the World Cup, he returned to Leicester where he helped in the development of England lock Ben Kay. He retired.
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Garry Adey
Garry John Adey (born 13 June 1945) is a former English rugby union footballer with 381 appearances for Leicester Tigers over a 16 year period (1965–1981). During his career he also gained three caps for England in the back row. He was a member of a very successful Leicester Tigers team that won the John Player Cup 3 times in consecutive years.
Garry is now Executive Chairman of The Adey Group [1] which has been established for over 80 years, in the steel fabrication and steel stockholding business. He also sits on the Board of Directors for Leicester Tigers.
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Geoff Parling
Geoff Parling (born 28 October 1983 in Stockton-on-Tees, England) is a rugby union player. He plays for Leicester Tigers as a lock.
After attending Newcastle University, he began his club career at Newcastle Falcons. Parling became a first team regular in the 2005–06 season, winning the players' player of the year award. Parling captained Newcastle on several occasions during the 2006–07 season. He was the runner-up for the Gatorade Performance of the Guinness Premiership Season 2008–09.
He signed a contract to play for Leicester Tigers for the 2009/10 season.
His debut for Leicester Tigers came against the club he had just left, and his first start for the club was in the Heineken Cup clash with Benetton Rugby Treviso. He also played in the Friendly match against South Africa, which the Tigers won 22–17.
Injuries to other Tigers players helped him to hold down a starting berth at lock, and the Tigers topped the table. They went on to win the 2009-10 Guinness Premiership final 33–27 against Saracens. Parling stole a vital line-out in the final minute of the game, which was right on the Tigers' try-line. He was voted Newcomer of the Year by Tigers supporters.
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Geordan Murphy
Geordan Edward Andrew Murphy (born 19 April 1978 in Dublin) is an Irish rugby union rugby player and plays fullback or wing for the English club Leicester Tigers and Ireland.
He was officially named George after his father but his mother called him Geordan to avoid confusion. His six brothers and sister all played rugby union. Geordan was educated at Newbridge College, Newbridge, Co. Kildare before attending Waterford Institute of Technology and De Montfort University in Leicester.
Murphy played Gaelic football at Minor (U18) level with Kildare GAA in the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship. In 1997 shortly before he joined Leicester Tigers he gained his first U18 rugby cap for Ireland. He gradually made his way into the Tigers' first team squad, while gaining caps for Ireland U21. Opportunities at fullback were limited by the presence of Tim Stimpson, but he gained a place on the right wing. Murphy played in both of Leicester's back-to-back Heineken Cup final wins in 2001 & 2002.
In June 2000, after representing Ireland A and an Ireland XV, he made his full Ireland debut against the United States, scoring twice. The 2000/01 season saw him turning out regularly for Ireland A during the “shadow” Six Nations and led to him being picked for the Barbarians tour of the UK and Ireland that year. The 2001/02 season saw Murphy finishing the season as Tigers' top try scorer in all competitions. He also scored a try for Ireland against Samoa in November 2001, and two more against Wales in Dublin in that season's Six Nations, but was then injured in the game against England.
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George Chuter
George Scala Chuter (born 9 July 1976 in Greenwich, London) is an English rugby union player who plays at Hooker for Leicester Tigers.
Chuter was born in Greenwich. He first started playing as a 12-year-old, when he went to Trinity School of John Whitgift in the London Borough of Croydon. He quickly established himself at hooker. He went on to play his club rugby for Old Mid-Whitgiftians and gained representative honours for the London Division U18 side.
He was invited to trial for Saracens F.C. at the age of 19, where he played for five years.
Chuter took a year off and decided to travel in the U.S. and Australia; he was in Sydney for the 2000 Olympic Games. On returning he signed for Leicester Tigers in December 2000. After the departure of Richard Cockerill in the summer of 2002, he competed with Dorian West as first choice hooker.
In the 2006–07 season, Chuter played in the final of the Guinness Premiership and Heineken Cup.
Chuter started in the final of the 2008–09 Guinness Premiership and 2008–09 Heineken Cup. Chuter started in the final of the 2009–10 Guinness Premiership.
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George Skivington
George Skivington, born 3 December 1982 in Warrington, England is a rugby union player for Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership. He plays as a lock.
He attended Wimbledon College and then moved to John Fisher School in Purley, also attended by fellow Ex-Wasp and England winger Paul Sackey; and Scotland prop Kyle Traynor.
Skivington was called into the England Saxons side that defeated Ireland A on 1 February 2008.
He later represented England Saxons at the 2008 Churchill Cup.
On 28 January 2010 he was named captain of the England Saxons side to play Ireland A at Bath's Recreation Ground on Sunday 31 January. He led his team to a 17–13 victory, and again against Italy A.
Phil Dowson's call-up to the full England squad saw Skivington also lead the Saxons throughout their victorious Churchill Cup campaign in summer 2010.
Skivington joined London Wasps in 2003, In 2008 he signed a contract keeping him at the London Wasps club until 2010.
On 14 April 2010, it was announced that he would be moving away from Wycombe to join Premiership rivals Leicester Tigers at the end of the season.
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Graham Kitchener
Graham Kitchener (born 29 September 1989 in Bromley) is an English rugby union player for Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership. He plays as a Lock but can also play as a blindside flanker.
He has represented England at Under 16, 18 and Under 20 level, and played a part in the Under 20's 6 nations grand slam in 2008. He was also a crucial member of the 2009 Under 20 squad, reaching the final of the JWC.
Kitchener attended Adams' Grammar School in Newport like fellow professional rugby player Peter Short of Bath Rugby.
A talented all round athlete, he spent 3 years playing football for Wolverhampton Wanderers Academy before deciding to focus on rugby.[citation needed] He was a schoolboy cricketer for Shropshire[citation needed] and was the Midlands Under 17 Shot Put champion,[citation needed] before finishing 6th in the English Schools championships.He combines his commitments as a professional rugby player with a full time degree at University of Birmingham[citation needed]
A graduate of the academy system at Aviva Premiership club Worcester Warriors, Graham Kitchener left the Warriors to join Leicester Tigers for the 2011-12 season.
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Graham Rowntree
Graham Christopher Rowntree (born 18 April 1971) is a former English rugby union player. He played loosehead prop for Leicester Tigers and England. He was capped 54 times for England, despite having to compete for his position with the world's second most capped player, Jason Leonard.
Rowntree was born in Stockton-on-Tees. He was educated at John Cleveland College, Hinckley, Leicestershire, which has also produced other rugby union players.
In 1988 he joined Leicester Tigers from Nuneaton and made his first-team debut against Oxford University in 1990. For much of that time he was in harness with the famous ‘ABC club’ alongside Richard Cockerill and Darren Garforth.
In 1993 he made his England A, Barbarians and Midlands debuts, and on 18 March 1995 he gained his first full England cap against Scotland in the Five Nations tournament as a temporary replacement for Jason Leonard. He subsequently played in the 1995 Rugby Union World Cup. He also made the 1997 Lions tour of South Africa, playing six games and the 99 World Cup.
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Harry Ellis
Harry Alistair Ellis (born 17 May 1982 in Leicester) is a retired English rugby union footballer who played scrum half for Leicester Tigers, England and the British & Irish Lions.
On 8 July 2010, Ellis announced his retirement from the game as a result of a persistent knee injury.
Ellis first played rugby union as a 6-year-old with the South Leicester club. He studied at Bushloe High School and later Leicester Grammar School, where he represented Leicester Schools and the Midlands at every age level.
He spent a year with the Wigston club before he finally joined the Leicester Tigers Academy where he combined playing with further education at De Montfort University. He worked his way through the Tigers lower teams and continued his representative career, playing for both the England U19 and U21 sides. He has also featured in the England Sevens squad along with his team mate Louis Deacon.
In August 2001, he made his first team Tigers debut in the Orange Cup game in Toulouse. Ellis went on to score a superb individual try that helped defeat Llanelli in the Heineken Cup semi-final at Nottingham. He was named Tigers’ Players Young Player of the Year for the 2001–2 season. In Leicester's 2002 Heineken Cup quarter final, Ellis scored the only try of the game, breaking away from a ruck and sliding over on the wet ground.
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Henry Tuilagi
Enele "Henry" Tuilagi (born 12 August 1976) is a Samoan rugby union footballer. He currently plays for USA Perpignan in the French club competition, the Top 14, and has appeared ten times for his national team Samoa. He previously spent a year playing in the Italian Super 10 competition for Parma as well as a spell in Rugby League.
Tuilagi made 24 first team appearances during his first season with the Leicester Tigers. He scored a try on his debut match for the Tigers against London Irish. He soon established himself firmly in the Tigers line-up, but his next season was cut short with a broken leg in the final home game against the London Wasps.
The Tuilagi family have strong connections with Leicester Tigers; Henry's brother Alesana (Alex) plays for Leicester, and his brothers Fereti (Freddie) and Anitelea (Andy) and Sanele Vavae Tuilagi are former players. His brother Manu is still at Leicester. Manu began his first season with Leicester in the 2010–11 Aviva Premiership and made his debut for England against Wales in August 2011.
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Heyneke Meyer
Heyneke Meyer (born 6 October 1967 in Nelspruit, South Africa) is a rugby union coach. He succeeded Peter de Villiers as coach of South Africa's national team the Springboks on 27 January 2012 for a four-year term.
He was previously Head Coach at Leicester Tigers in the Guinness Premiership. He is the former coach of the Blue Bulls in the Super 14 competition.
After studying sports psychology at the University of Pretoria, Meyer coached a variety of smaller clubs before joining the Eagles as assistant coach in 1997. The following year he was promoted to head coach and took the team to seventh place in the Currie Cup and to the semi finals in the following year. In 2000 Meyer joined the Northern Bulls as head coach. In 2002 he became head coach of the Blue Bulls and coached them to four Currie Cup titles in between 2002 and 2006. In 2007, the team became the first South African team to win the Super 14 competition.
In February 2008 Meyer was expected to succeed Jake White as coach of the South African national team but after this job went to Peter De Villiers. Meyer quit rugby and accepted a senior position at a sports supplement company.
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Horacio Agulla
Horacio Agulla (born October 22, 1984 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine rugby union player, who represents Leicester Tigers at club level, and has played for Argentina's national side. Agulla plays as a winger. He also attended St. Felipe The Apostle School in Don Torcuato a Suburb in The Province of Buenos Aires).
Agulla made his debut for the national side on December 3, 2005, in a match against Samoa, and has received 8 caps in total (as of September 7, 2007). Agulla was in the Argentine squad for the 2007 Rugby World Cup, and featured in the opening match against France. In 2008 he signed with Top 14's US Dax. He has since moved on to Brive. It was reported in early April 2010 (including on Sky Sports in the UK) that he had signed a contract to play for Leicester Tigers from the 2010/2011 season, joining his fellow Argentine internationals Marcos Ayerza and Lucas González Amorosino at Welford Road.
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James Grindal
James Grindal (born 1980 in Nuneaton) is a rugby union footballer who plays scrum-half for Leicester Tigers. He has been capped by England at Under-21 level.
He attended King Henry VIII School in Coventry where he partnered Andy Goode, who he also partnered with at Leicester some years later.
Grindal joined Coventry R.F.C. but before long he was off to Leicester Tigers where he made his first-team debut in October 1999, aged 19. He could not quite break into the first-team at Leicester, only making 11 full appearances and 10 substitute appearances in the 3 years he was at the club.
This prompted Grindal to made a move to another Guinness Premiership (then called the Zurich Premiership) in the summer of 2002. Since then, he has made 106 first-team appearances (43 of which as a substitute). At Newcastle, Grindal has been partnered with World Cup winner Jonny Wilkinson, an England rival of his former half-back partner, Andy Goode.
He was called into the England Saxons side that defeated Ireland A on 1 February 2008.
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Jeremy Staunton
Jeremy Staunton (born 7 May 1980) is an Irish rugby union fly-half, currently playing for English club Leicester Tigers in the top level of English rugby, the Aviva Premiership. He has also played for Ireland.
He was educated at St Munchin's College Limerick.
Staunton began his Rugby career with his local team Galbally RFC in Co. Limerick, Ireland. Later, he played for Garryowen Football Club in the AIB League before earning a contract with Munster. Seeing his opportunities limited behind Ronan O'Gara he joined Harlequins in the summer of 2004 before moving on to London Wasps in the summer of 2005. He was part of the Wasps side that won the Powergen Anglo-Welsh cup in 2006, beating the Llanelli Scarlets at Twickenham Stadium. Staunton signed for London Irish at the end of the 2006–2007 season, but was re-signed on loan by Wasps on 12 February 2008, for the remainder of the season, and renewed his contract with Wasps for the 2008–2009 season. He moved to Leicester in the summer of 2009 as cover for the injured Toby Flood. He has renewed his contract to keep him at Leicester until the end of the 2011/2012 season.
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Joel Stransky
Joel Theodore Stransky (born 16 July 1967) is a former South African rugby union rugby player, most notable for scoring all of South Africa's points, including the famous dramatic winning drop goal, against New Zealand in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final. He played as a fly-half.
Stransky was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He is of English and Czech descent and Jewish on his father's side. He was educated at Maritzburg College where he was coached under Skonk Nicholson, a well-known figure in schoolboy rugby. After his military conscription in Pretoria, he returned to Natal to study at the University of Natal.
In 1990 he was part of the Natal team that beat Northern Transvaal to win the Currie Cup for the first time, before he moved to Italy where he played for L'Aquila during the season 1991-92 and for San Donà in the 1992-93. Between 1993 and 1996, he gained 22 caps for his country.
In 1995 he was part of the first South African rugby union team to play in a Rugby World Cup. South Africa had been banned from the previous World Cups because of the Apartheid regime. He played an integral part in the South African team and scored all the points for his team in the World Cup final against New Zealand, including a drop goal in the second period of extra time. This was the first Rugby World Cup final that went into extra time.
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John Eric Greenwood
John Eric Greenwood (known as Jenny Greenwood) was a rugby union international who represented England from 1912 to 1920. He also captained his country. During what would have been the prime of his playing career he fought in the First World War.
Jenny Greenwood was born on 23 July 1891 in Lewisham. He attended Dulwich College
Greenwood learnt his rugby at Dulwich College, before which he had been a keen soccer player. Whilst there he played in an unbeaten first XV in 1909 which contained five future internationals dubbed the 'Famous Five'. These five would all go on to play in the 1913 Varsity match, (and also produced the captains of both Oxford and Cambridge in 1919), and all served in the First World War. They were Eric Loudoun-Shand and Grahame Donald who both went on to play for Scotland, William David Doherty who went on to play for and captain Ireland, Greenwood himself who went on to play for and captain England and the record-breaking Cyril Lowe.
From Dulwich College, Greenwood went to Cambridge University. He was selected to play as a Centre in the 1912 varsity match, and also made his international debut on 8 April 1912 at Parc des Princes in the France vs England match. He was again selected for the 1913 varsity match and again played for England. On his team were two of his former school team mates, CN Lowe and George Doherty, on the opposing side were Eric Loudoun-Shand and Graham Donald also from Dulwich. His international career was then interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War.
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John Welborn
John Welborn (born 8 September 1970) is a former Australian rugby union player, who plays at the lock position. He is a former Wallaby. He was the first Western Australian player to represent Australia in rugby union, and played six matches for the Wallabies.
During his career, Welborn has played for CA Brive in Ligue Nationale de Rugby's TOP 14 division, the Natal Sharks in the Currie Cup, Leicester Tigers in the Guinness Premiership and for the Western Force in Super Rugby.
Welborn attended Scotch College in Perth for a period of his schooling.
Welborn grew up in Perth and after gaining a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia and representing the state in 15 senior rugby games moved to Sydney in 1992 to follow his ambition of playing rugby for Australia. In New South Wales John qualified as a chartered accountant and from 1994 to 2000 earned 63 caps for the Waratahs remaining their most capped second row forward of all time. Representing the Wallabies between 1996 and 1999, John played six tests for Australia and claims he would have played 60 if John Eales had been a back rower. An accomplished rugby traveller John also had successful playing stints with the Natal Sharks in South Africa and the Leicester Tigers in the UK before moving to France where he played five seasons for famous French club Brive. John completed a remarkable rugby odyssey by returning to Perth in 2006 to be a founding player in the Western Force's inaugural season.
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Jordan Crane
Jordan Crane (born 8 September 1973) is an American comics creator.
Crane first emerged in 1996 with the anthology NON, which he edited, contributed to, and published. This anthology combines influences from Art Spiegelman’s RAW and newer comics artists. After two more issues of NON, he moved to Massachusetts and began collaborating with the now defunct comics publisher Highwater Books. (There are five issues of Non in total, all including work by Crane.)
He has written two novels, The Last Lonely Saturday and Col-Dee.
Crane's most recent book, The Clouds Above, is a fast-paced children's story which follows the adventures of a boy named Simon and his large cat named Jack. They battle angry clouds, peevish birds and elude the grasp of an overbearing teacher, with the effect resonating somewhere between Where the Wild Things Are and The Wizard of Oz.
Crane is currently working on a quarterly comic called Uptight where he presents new short stories and serializes his long-running work Keeping Two.
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Josh Kronfeld
Joshua Adrian Kronfeld (born 20 June 1971) is a former rugby union footballer who represented New Zealand at international level and Otago, the Highlanders and Leicester at first-class level. During his international career, Kronfeld played in 56 games for the All Blacks, gaining 54 test caps, including appearances at both the 1995 and 1999 Rugby World Cups.
Kronfeld played as an openside flanker, and his greatest attribute was considered to be the speed with which he was able to get to breakdowns in play, in order to gain or regain possession of the ball.
Kronfeld was born in Hastings in Hawkes Bay, and attended Hastings Boys' High School. He played his early rugby union at scrum-half and centre, switching to flanker at high school.
In 1990 Kronfeld moved to Dunedin to study physical education at the University of Otago. Here he became involved in the Otago University Rugby Club. After playing one game in 1992, Kronfeld gained a starting position in the Otago team in the National Provincial Championship (NPC) for 1993. Kronfeld would eventually play 69 matches for Otago. He completed his BPhEd degree in 1993.
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Julian Salvi
Julian Salvi (born 9 October 1985 in Canberra, Australia), is an Australian rugby union player. He currently plays for Leicester Tigers.
Salvi returned to the Brumbies after a one-year sabbatical with English Premiership club, Bath. The highly-rated flanker returns having already amassed 49 Super Rugby caps between 2005 and 2009, having been the first player to be contracted to the Brumbies from school, in 2004.
The Canberra junior and former Australian Schools and Under 21s captain further enhanced his standing as a noted ball winner and breakdown specialist during his time in the Northern Hemisphere and was recognised for a stellar season by claiming the West Country club’s Best Forward award and finishing runner up to English outside back Nick Abendanon as the club’s Player’s Player.
After completing the season with Bath and committing to his return to the ACT, Salvi turned out for the Tuggeranong Vikings and helped them to a grand final appearance in the Tooheys New John I Dent Cup, having already represented his country at Schools, Under 21’s and Australia A.
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Julian White
Julian White MBE (born 14 May 1973 in Plymouth, Devon) is an English rugby union footballer who plays prop for Leicester Tigers and England.
White is regarded as one of the most powerful forwards in the game. He is renowned for his destructive scrummaging and aggressive tighthead prop.
As a youngster he played mini and junior rugby for Salcombe and had played in the same senior side as his father, a former Plymouth Albion player. He served his rugby union apprenticeship with Okehampton and Plymouth Albion and had a spell in New Zealand with Hawke's Bay and Canterbury Crusaders. He made his debut for Hawke's Bay in August 1996 and appeared in the NZ Provincial Championship. He made his only Super 12 appearance as a replacement for the Crusaders against Natal in Christchurch in April 1997.
His time in New Zealand ended in tragedy; he was involved in an auto accident in which a young woman was killed and he suffered a broken leg. As he remembers it,
He returned to the UK when a Welsh coach who had worked with White at Hawke's Bay told him that Bridgend desperately needed a tighthead. White played for Bridgend in 1998/9 before moving to Saracens in 1999. He swiftly made his Premiership debut in the 28–23 defeat of London Irish at Vicarage Road, Watford on the opening weekend of the season.
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Julien Dupuy
Julien Dupuy born 19 December 1983 is a rugby union player for Stade Français in the Top 14.
Julien Dupuy plays as a Scrum-half.
Julien Dupuy played for Biarritz and Toulouse in the French Top 14 for 7 seasons before joining Leicester Tigers in 2008.It was confirmed in April 2009 that he would remain at Leicester for the 2009-10 Guinness Premiership season,but in June 2009, Leicester coach Richard Cockerill resigned himself to losing Dupuy to Stade Français. He was only halfway through a two-year deal but has reportedly been unsettled at Leicester because his French girlfriend was homesick.After the end of the season, he left Leicester for Stade Français, where his 2009-10 Top 14 season was ended early by a 24-week ban for contact with the eye or eye area of Stephen Ferris during Stade's loss to Ulster in the 2009-10 Heineken Cup.The ban was reduced to 23 weeks on appeal.
Dupuy made his France debut on 13 June 2009 in the first Test against New Zealand at Carisbrook, Dunedin, a game that France won by 27 points to 22.
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Kieran Brookes
Kieran Brookes (born 29 August 1990) is an English rugby player who plays with Leicester Tigers as a prop.
He made almost 40 senior appearances for Newcastle but only started 1 game in the 2009–2010 season.
He moved to Leicester Tigers for the 2011-12 season.
Although born in England, he played at many underage levels for Ireland, including U-18, U-19 and U-20. He has now played committed himself to the England rugby team, playing for England in an uncapped match against the Barbarians and for the England Saxons in their successful Churchill Cup campaign in the summer of 2011.
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Leon Lloyd
Leon David Lloyd (born 22 September 1977 in Coventry) is a retired English rugby union footballer who played wing or outside centre for Leicester Tigers between 1996 and 2007, spending his final 2007/8 season at Gloucester.
Leon Lloyd agreed a deal to leave Leicester Tigers for Guinness Premiership team Gloucester Rugby.
Prior to making his début for the Tigers first team Leon was a successful try scorer for the Tigers Youth XV and Development XV before a serious car accident sidelined him for six months.
Lloyd made his Tigers début aged 17 in 1996, and displaced ageing England international Rory Underwood from the side. He was part of the squad that won the Madrid Sevens that year. Lloyd was a substitute in the 1997 Heineken Cup Final which Tigers lost 28-9 to Brive. He played for England U21, England 7s, the Barbarians England Colts and England Schools.
Under backs coach Joel Stransky, Lloyd was shifted inside from the wing to outside centre.
Lloyd was included in England's 1999 World Cup squad but didn't feature in any matches. He went onto gain his first two caps the following season as a replacement against South Africa in 2000, but concern was raised about his discipline as he was seen punching a Springbok player.
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Les Cusworth
Les Cusworth (born 3 July 1954 in Normanton, West Yorkshire) is a former English rugby union footballer and current Argentine Director of Rugby.
He was educated at Normanton Grammar School and the West Midlands Teacher Training college.
He started his club career at Wakefield RFC where he set the British club record holder of 25 drop goals in just 21 games in 1974/75 and helped Wakefield reach the semi finals of the John Player Cup in 1975/76.
He later moved to Moseley and Leicester Tigers from where he won 12 England caps over 9 years (1979–1988) although he was never really favoured by the English management as he was an unpredictable running fly half.
He played 365 times for Tigers scoring 947 points, and playing alongside the likes of Paul Dodge, Clive Woodward, Nick Youngs in Tigers' three-time John Player cup winning side 1979-1981.
He also played for English Colleges, British Colleges, Yorkshire, North East Counties and played in the North Midlands team which won the county championships in 1978.
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Lewis Moody
Lewis Walton Moody MBE (born 12 June 1978 in Ascot) is a retired English rugby union rugby player who played most recently for Bath Rugby and was part of the 2003 World Cup winning side. He was renowned for his commitment to the physical aspects of the game. On 6 March 2012, he announced his full retirement from all rugby with immediate effect.
When he was five he took up mini rugby at Bracknell, when a school friend suggested he join him. He played at Bracknell until 12 years old. He was educated at Eagle House Prep School, then Oakham School in Rutland, where he initially played rugby union at centre before moving to full back. He later studied Business Administration at De Montfort University while playing for Leicester Tigers
Moody is known for the enthusiasm with which he plays the game, his willingness to chase down opponents and his ability to compete for possession at restarts. However, he has been criticised for a tendency to give away reckless penalties at the breakdown, which has been attributed by his supporters to his being played out of position at openside rather than blindside flanker. However, historically, the blindside flanker should be of a larger physique than the openside, and invariably the other flanker on the field is larger than Moody.
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Lote Tuqiri
Lote Daulako Tuqiri (born 23 September 1979) is a Fijian/Australian professional rugby league player and former rugby union player who is currently signed to the Wests Tigers in the NRL who has represented Australia in both rugby codes, and Fiji in rugby league. He usually plays as a winger.
He first rose to prominence as a rugby league player for the Brisbane Broncos and Queensland Maroons, as well as the Fiji and Australia national sides. He switched to rugby union in 2002, winning 67 caps for Australia and being a part of their 2003 and 2007 World Cup squads. He played rugby union for the Waratahs in the Super 14, and Leicester Tigers in England in season 2009–10.
Tuqiri's contract with the Australian Rugby Union was terminated on 1 July 2009. No immediate reason was given, and Tuqiri returned to rugby league in 2010.
Tuqiri was born in Korolevu, Fiji to mother Titilia and father Tukula and grew up in Namatakula with family including older sister Mela, younger brother Tevita and sister Sereana. He moved to Australia with his family at the age of 15, settling at Sunnybank, Queensland (a suburb of Brisbane) where he began playing competitive sport for the Souths Sunnybank Rugby League while attending school at Sunnybank State High School.
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Louis Deacon
Louis Deacon (born 7 October 1980 in Leicester) is an English rugby union footballer. He is a lock.
His playing career started as an eight year old, playing with Wigston, before joining Syston. He later joined Syston and as a Ratcliffe College student represented the Midlands county and both the England 16 Group and U18 Group School sides. He joined the Leicester Tigers Academy in the 1997–98 season and worked his way through the Tigers Youth, U21 and Extras teams.
Deacon joined Leicester Tigers in 2000. He made his first team debut in August 2000 as a replacement against Cardiff and has established himself as a highly dependable player and equally at home at the front or middle of the line out. In the absence of club captain Geordan Murphy through injury, he has captained for spells in the 2009–10 season.
He was called up to the England A squad in the 2002–03 season but injury forced him to withdraw.
Having lived in the shadow of the England pairing of Martin Johnson and Ben Kay for several seasons, he took the opportunity in 2003–04 to command a regular place during the World Cup. He made 23 appearances in all that season, and by the end he was being picked ahead of Kay.
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Manu Tuilagi
Manu Samoa Tuilagi (born 18 May 1991) is a Samoan born English professional rugby union player who currently plays for Aviva Premiership side Leicester Tigers. He plays on the wing or as a centre.
Manu is the younger brother of Henry Tuilagi, Freddie Tuilagi, Alesana Tuilagi, Anitelea Tuilagi and Sanele Vavae Tuilagi, all of whom are Samoan internationals.
Tuilagi played junior rugby at Hinckley RFC from U14's to U16's; winning the Leicestershire county cup at U16's. He was a student at John Cleveland College and Mount Grace High school where he was part of the team that won the Leicestershire schools county cup three years running; he played in the U15's Daily Mail Vase, losing to Langley Park Boys School in the Final at Twickenham Stadium. Tuilagi played in the Daily Mail Vase final again in U18's where, after collecting a crossfield kick, he scored a try in the victory over Hampton School.
Tuilagi represented Leicester in the Middlesex Sevens at Twickenham in 2009. The team only made it out of the first round, having beaten London Wasps: in this game, Tuilagi made a big hit on Wasps sevens captain Chris Bishay.
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Marcelo Loffreda
Marcelo Loffreda (born May 17, 1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a rugby player and coach, until recently head coach for the English club power Leicester Tigers. Loffreda won 44 caps with one as captain, playing at centre for the Argentine rugby union side (los Pumas). He played much of his career outside the legendary Hugo Porta and scored 4 test tries.
In 1994 he hung up his playing boots and became a coach. In April 2000, he was appointed coach of Argentina and steered them to series victories over France, Wales and Scotland, a draw with the British and Irish Lions, a win against England at Twickenham in November 2006 as well as coming close to securing the Pumas' first victories over South Africa and New Zealand. The Pumas went on to their all-time best finish of third at the 2007 World Cup, including an opening win over hosts France, a pool win over Ireland, and another win over France in the third-place match. This success was Loffreda's swan song as Pumas coach, as he had announced months before the tournament that he would leave the Pumas after the World Cup for the Leicester job.
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Marcos Ayerza
Marcos Ayerza (born January 12, 1983 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine rugby union footballer who plays loose-head prop for an English club, the Leicester Tigers.
He is completing a degree in business studies.
He joined Leicester in 2006, having previously played rugby for his school Colegio Cardenal Newman and then for Club Newman in Buenos Aires. His Tigers debut came as a late call-up when Alex Moreno was injured in the warm-up, against Bath Rugby in September 2006.
In January 2008, he signed a three-year contract extension with Tigers along with fellow prop Martin Castrogiovanni.
He won back-to-back Guinness Premiership titles with Leicester Tigers, in 2009 and 2010. The 2009 final was against London Irish, and the 2010 against Saracens.
Ayerza has represented Argentina at under-19 and under-21 level, playing in both the 2003 and 2004 under-21 World Championships. His international debut for the full Argentina side was in December 2004 against the Springbgoks. His only international try to date was scored against Japan in April 2005 He went on to compete in qualifying matches for the 2007 Rugby World Cup and was capped twice during that competition, collecting a bronze medal as Argentina came third. He has played on both sides of the scrum internationally.
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Marcus Rose
Marcus Rose (born 12 January 1957) is a former England rugby union international full back who gained ten caps between 1981 and 1987.
Rose was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, Hatfield College at Durham University (where he is now a trustee) and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
He played for Leicester Tigers at the age of 17, Cambridge University (winning 3 Blues and captaining the side in the 1980 Centenary Varsity Match), Coventry R.F.C. and Harlequins. He represented the Barbarians and is the only Englishmen to have been selected to play for The French Barbarians.
Internationally, Rose played for England schools Under 19's in 1975 and 1976, England U23 and made his full England debut in the 1981 Five Nations Championship championship against Ireland scoring a try in a 10 - 6 win. After 1982 he was omitted from the national side until he was selected for the 1987 Five Nations Championship, scoring 41 out of England's tally of 48 points that season. He won his only World Cup cap in the first Rugby World Cup in 1987 but was severely concussed after five minutes of play in the first game against Australia, which proved to be his last game in an England shirt.
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Mathew Tait
Mathew Tait (born 6 February 1986, in Shotley Bridge,County Durham) is an English rugby union footballer. He is an outside centre, a fullback or wing. He plays club rugby for the Aviva Premiership side Leicester Tigers.
Tait attended Barnard Castle School, where he was a member of the school 1st XV which appeared in the Daily Mail Cup Final for two successive seasons. The school has also produced England internationals Rob Andrew, Rory Underwood, and Tony Underwood.
Newcastle Falcons signed the centre on contract in April 2004 while he was still finishing his A levels, in which he achieved 3 A's. In May 2004 he made his debut in a Zurich Premiership game against London Irish and scored a try with his first touch of the ball.
On May 3, 2008, Tait agreed to a deal to leave the Falcons to sign for Sale Sharks. Tait was linked up with All-Black centre Luke McAlister. During the 2008-09 Guinness Premiership season Tait suffered several injuries and was experimented at full-back. However, as the season continued and entered its latter stages, Tait began to play at his preferred position of outside centre and put in performances that ensured he was selected for England again.
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Mefin Davies
David Mefin Davies (born 2 September 1972) is a Welsh rugby union footballer who plays as a hooker for the Ospreys and the Wales national rugby union team.
Davies was born in Nantgaredig. He made his international debut on 8 June 2002 at Cape Town, South Africa. He was a member of the Wales team that won the 2005 Six Nations Championship and Grand Slam.
In March 2010, he signed for the Ospreys on a two year deal from the Leicester Tigers.
He formerly played with Gloucester Rugby and captained Pontypridd RFC.
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Micky Young
Michael Young (born 31 December 1988) is a Scrum half for Rugby Union team Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership. He is a product of West Hartlepool Rugby Club junior academy.
He played for Newcastle Falcons before switching to Leicester Tigers for the 2011/12 season.
In November 2008 Young represented England national rugby union team (sevens) in Dubai and South Africa.
In January 2010 Young was selected for the England Saxons. In May 2009 Young represented England Sevens at Twickenham and scored the winning try against New Zealand in the final of the Emirates Airline London Sevens. He also played for the Saxons in the last ever Churchill Cup campaign, in the summer of 2011.
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Miles Benjamin
Miles Benjamin (born 11 May 1988 in Solihull, West Midlands, England) is a rugby union player who plays at Wing for Leicester Tigers in the English Aviva Premiership. He also played several other sports in his youth, representing the West Midlands at athletics and water polo, and Warwickshire at cricket. He received the Bache memorial prize for sportsman of the year from his school, King Edward's School, Birmingham.
Benjamin was signed by the Worcester Warriors Academy. After suffering a fractured fibula at the Middlesex Sevens in August 2006, Benjamin returned to full fitness with the help of the Worcester Warriors physios after a year out, returning in the 2007 Middlesex Sevens tournament. Cousin, Marissa Dzotsi, who helped him through it all and was by his side and watched him play a great game.Miles plays centre and wing.
His debut first-team start was against London Irish in the EDF Energy Cup, where he scored a try. His debut Premiership appearance was as a substitute against Leicester Tigers at Welford Road. He scored his first Premiership try against Newcastle Falcons in January 2008. He finished the season as the club’s leading try-scorer with 15 and fourth in the Guinness Premiership charts with nine. Benjamin was jointly awarded the Young Player of the Year prize at Worcester's end of 2007–08 season awards. He was on the losing side in the final of the 2007–08 European Challenge Cup.
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Munster Rugby
Munster Rugby, usually referred to simply as Munster, is one of the four professional provincial rugby teams from Ireland. They compete in the RaboDirect Pro12 and the Heineken Cup. The team represents the IRFU Munster Branch, which is one of four primary branches of the IRFU and is responsible for rugby union in the Irish province of Munster. Their main home ground is Thomond Park, Limerick, though some smaller profile games are played at Musgrave Park, Cork. Munster currently play in a red and blue home strip, while the away strip is white striped horizontally with the colours of the six counties of Munster. The Munster Rugby logo consists of three crowns and a stag. The team motto is "To the brave and faithful, nothing is impossible"; it is derived from the motto of the MacCarthy clan – "Forti et Fideli nihil difficile".
Munster is known for its passionate support and games involving Munster hold several Heineken Cup records for highest attendances in every stage of the finals, as well as the highest ever attendance for a rugby game in both Spain and Switzerland. In 2008, Director of Coaching Declan Kidney left to take up the head coach job with Ireland, and Munster ensured continuity by promoting Australian Tony McGahan to the position from within the coaching setup.
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Neil Back
Neil Antony Back MBE (born 16 January 1969) is a former international rugby union footballer for England, who also played for Leicester Tigers, and captained both England and Leicester during his career. He is currently the Head Coach at National League 3 Midlands side Rugby Lions.
During his international career, he gained 66 caps for England, captaining them four times and was part of the 2003 World Cup winning side. He played as an openside flanker. He is married with two daughters.
Back and Nick Beal share the unusual distinction of being contemporary players whose names are anagrams of each other's, and they both worked for insurance company Equity & Law at the same time, too.
Back was born in Coventry, where he attended the Woodlands School between September 1980 and July 1985. During his time at the school, he also played football and cricket before opting for rugby union. Back learnt his trade at Barker's Butts RFC and went on to represent England at U18, U21 and 'A' level before making his full England debut against Scotland in 1994. He also played for Nottingham.
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Nick Youngs
Nicholas Gerald Youngs (born 15 December 1959) is a former English rugby union footballer who played for Leicester Tigers and England, at Scrum-half, gaining six England caps in 1983-1984. He also was an unused England reserve five times between 1981 and 1983.
He was educated at Cawston College and Gresham's School, Holt, and is now a farmer in Norfolk.
His sons Tom, a centre turned hooker, (born 1987) and Ben (born 1989), a half-back, have both made appearances for the Leicester first team and at England age group levels. Tom made his Tigers debut against London Irish on Boxing Day 2006, but broke his leg after five minutes and came off after thirteen. Ben joined his father as a full England international when he made his debut as a substitute against Scotland in March 2010.
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Ollie Smith
Oliver James Smith (born 14 August 1982 in Leicester) is an English rugby player who plays for Harlequins F.C. Rugby Club as of next season (10/11) and England usually at outside centre and occasionally inside centre or wing. He sees himself as a centre who has enough pace to deliver on the wing if required. Smith is 6'1" (1.85 m) and weighs 14 st 5l bs (91 kg). He formerly played for Leicester Tigers. It has been announced that he will join London side Harlequins for the 2010/2011 season.
He was educated at John Cleveland College, Hinckley and went on to do a PE & Sports Science degree at Loughborough University. He started playing junior rugby union with Old Bosworthians and then joined Market Bosworth at U14 level. As a boy he attended Tigers matches with his father and had his first season ticket at Welford Road at age seven. He joined Leicester Academy in 1999 after attending a trial. He was an unused replacement aged 17 before making his Leicester debut in September 2000 against London Irish after his 18th birthday, at the time he was the youngest player to feature in the Zurich Premiership. His age and ability led to comparisons with former Tigers' centre Paul Dodge who did make his debut aged 17 and was to be his mentor.
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Pat Howard
Patrick William Howard, usually known as Pat Howard or Paddy Howard (born 14 November 1973) is an ex-head coach at Leicester Tigers and a former Australian rugby union international who played centre or fly-half. He was educated at Queensland University.
He was born in Sydney. His father Jake Howard played prop for Australia and his grandfather Cyril Towers also played centre for the Wallabies.
He attended Marist College Ashgrove, Brisbane where he played 1st XV Rugby. He started his career playing for the University of Queensland Football club. Studying pharmacy at the University he was a recipient of a prestgious University of Queensland Sporting Scholarships. Picked up by the Queensland Reds, before moving to the ACT Brumbies, he also played club football at Sydney University. Howard played 20 tests for Australia between 1993 and 1997, making his debut against New Zealand. In 1998 he signed for Leicester Tigers, displacing Will Greenwood, who was forced return to Harlequins for first team rugby. Howard became a pivotal part of the Tigers' championship winning side.
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Paul Dodge
Paul William Dodge (born 26 May 1958 in Leicester, England) is a former English rugby union international footballer who gained 32 caps for his country between 1978 and 1985. His Leicester Tigers career earned him 436 appearances.
Dodge joined Tigers as a youth player and as a 17-year old, made his first team debut in the annual Christmas fixture against the Barbarians. His England debut came 2 years later. With Clive Woodward he formed a centre partnership that played for Tigers, England and the British Lions tour to South Africa in 1980. In 1985 he captained England 8 times and captained Tigers in the '87/88 season. After retiring he became Leicester backs coach between '93 and '96 before becoming an academy coach in '98.
His elder son Alex Dodge plays at outside centre and after much success in the Tigers Development XV, was promoted to the Leicester first team squad for the 2005/6 Guinness Premiership season, making 2 appearances from the bench. He is now a regular first team player for Nottingham RFC in National League One. His younger son Ollie Dodge has had a little more success than his older sibling, representing Midlands U16's, North of England U16's and England U19's. Ollie was promoted from the Tigers Development XV to the Leicester first team in the 2007/2008 season, after helping England U19's to a deserved third place in the 2006 World Championships in Dubai.
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Peter Bucknall
Peter Bucknall (born 24 August 1982) is an English rugby union player who plays at tight-head prop for Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership.
He has previously played for Birmingham & Solihull R.F.C. (2007–08), Coventry R.F.C. (2005–07), and Bracknell (2004–05). He played for Leeds Carnegie from 2008 to 2010 in both National Division One and when they got promoted to the Guinness Premiership, though he underwent a knee operation in February 2009, which put him out of action for some months.
Leicester Tigers signed him for the 2010–11 season.
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Peter Tom
Peter William Gregory Tom, CBE (born 1940, Cornwall) is a British businessman. He is Chairman of the Board of Marwyn Materials Ltd.
A former group chairman and chief executive of Aggregate Industries, he made 130 appearances for Leicester Tigers as a lock forward between 1963 and 1968, though he was never capped internationally. He was awarded the CBE in 2006. He is now Chairman of Leicester Tigers.
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Ramiro Pez
Ramiro Pez (born 6 December 1978 in Córdoba, Argentina) is an Italian Argentine rugby union footballer who normally plays at fly-half. In 2008-09, he joined the newly promoted French Top 14 club Toulon, having been signed from Venezia Mestre in the Italian Super 10 competition.
He made his international debut with the Italian national team on the 8th July 2000, in a match against Samoa in Apia, scoring 9 points in the game.
Pez played with the National team both with Brad Johnstone and John Kirwan, but he did not take part to the 2003 World Cup. Back with the Italian team for the 2005 tour in Australia and Argentina, Ramiro Pez gave his fundamental contribution for the first Italian win against Argentina (30-29).
Pez played for La Tablada in his hometown of Córdoba. The club won the title in November 2000, scoring all his teams' points in a 23-22 victory over Duendes Rosario. He went onto join Italian club Rugby Roma. He scored 122 points and 6 tries in 19 Serie A appearances. This included an Italian Championship final win over L’Aquila in Rome in June 2000. He scored 20 points in the final. He then joined Rotherham club for the 2001-02 season and was their top points scorer with 202 points, as they won the National Division One title. It was here where he enjoyed some of his best years, breaking into the Italy team and gaining national and international acclaim.
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Richard Cockerill
Richard Cockerill (born 16 December 1970) is a former English rugby union footballer who played as a hooker.
Cockerill was born in Rugby. Joining Leicester Tigers, he established himself as the B of the "ABC club" alongside Graham Rowntree (A) and Darren Garforth (C).
He made his England debut against Argentina in 1997 and later his first match at Twickenham was as a half-time replacement for the Bath hooker Andy Long in Clive Woodward's first match in charge against the Wallabies; Long was young and clearly out of his depth. Cockerill's performance earned him a starting place against New Zealand, where he stood up to Norm Hewitt during the haka (see book cover).
A dip in form led him to lose his first choice hooking position at Leicester to Dorian West. He was also dropped from the England side after criticising Woodward in his book entitled In Your Face. He subsequently moved to France, but signed again for Leicester for the 2004–5 season.
In 2005 he was appointed forwards coach at Leicester Tigers succeeding John Wells.
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Rob Hawkins
Rob Hawkins (born 14 April 1983 in Taunton, Somerset, England) is a rugby union player for Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership.
Hawkins' position of choice is as a hooker. Hawkins represented England at Under 21 level.
Hawkins made his Bath Rugby debut in a European Challenge Cup match against L'Aquila Rugby. He made his League debut against Sale Sharks.
Hawkins joined Leicester Tigers for the 2010/2011 season.
In 2012 Calum Clark of Northampton Saints was suspended for 32 weeks after being found guilty of deliberately breaking the arm of Hawkins in the 2012 LV cup final.
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Rod Kafer
Rodney "Rod" B. Kafer (born 25 June 1971) was a rugby union player for the ACT Brumbies and the Australian Wallabies. He is remembered by Brumbies fans for kicking a drop-goal in the final minute in a 2001 game against the Cats giving the Brumbies a one point win. He now works for Fox Sports as a rugby commentator and has a weekly segment on the show "The Rugby Club" called Kafe's Chalkboard. He attended Canberra Grammar School in his youth.
At the age of 15 he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes
Kafer was the first player to have received winners medals from the major Southern and Northern Hemisphere rugby tournaments, the Super 12 with the ACT Brumbies in 2001 and the Heineken Cup with the Leicester Tigers in 2002. The only other players to have achieved this are Doug Howlett, enjoying success with the Auckland Blues in 2003 and Munster in 2008, and Brad Thorn, with Canterbury Crusaders in 2008, and Leinster Rugby in 2012.
Kafer is generally considered to be one of the foremost thinkers of the game and is believed to have been the brains behind the Brumbies successes in the early years
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Rory Underwood
Rory Underwood MBE (born 19 June 1963 in Middlesbrough, England) is a record-breaking former English rugby union footballer who played wing for, most notably, Leicester Tigers. He represented England and the British Lions and is a former Royal Air Force pilot.
He is of Chinese-English parentage. His father was a Yorkshire engineer who worked in Malaysia where he met and married Underwood's Chinese-Malay mother.
He was educated at Barnard Castle School (with Rob Andrew) and RAF College Cranwell.
His early life was spent in Malaysia, then his family moved to Yorkshire, but his father worked in Malaysia.
In the RAF, he played for the Strike Command and main RAF rugby team. He flew as Flying Officer Underwood with 360 Sqn, an electronic countermeasures training squadron, on Canberras at RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire. He then flew the Hawk with 100 Sqn also at Wyton. He took a ground-instruction job in 1995 at RAF Cranwell becoming a Flight Lieutenant, whilst playing for Leicester. He became Station Flight Safety Officer, then joined 55 Sqn (navigator training, now referred to as a Weapon Systems Officer) on the twin-engined Dominie (British Aerospace 125), and continued in the RAF until 1999, although he could have stayed until 2001.
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Sam Vesty
Samuel Brook Vesty (born 26 November 1981) is an English rugby union footballer who plays utility back (though his preferred position is full back) for Bath Rugby.
Vesty is the fourth generation of his family to play for the Tigers. His father Phil Vesty made 47 first-team appearances for Leicester as a prop between 1971–1976, his paternal grandfather Albert (Bernard) Vesty made one appearance for Leicester on the wing in the last game of the 1946/47 season, and a great-grandfather, Jack Dickens, a centre-cum-wing, made 15 first-team appearances for Tigers in the 1909–1910 season. Vesty is an all-round sportsman, having played as a wicket-keeper/batsman for Leicestershire C.C.C.'s 2nd XI before having to give up cricket to focus on his rugby. He has also played tennis to county level.
He attended John Cleveland College, and plays in a rock band with other Tigers players Dan Hipkiss, Aaron Mauger and George Chuter called Slo Progress.
Vesty came through the Tigers academy, making his first team début in 2002 Biarritz in the Orange cup.
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Seru Rabeni
Ratu Seru Raveive Rabeni (born 27 December 1978 in Bua, Fiji) is a Fijian rugby union player. He plays as a centre or wing for Stade Rochelais.
Rabeni is also renowned in both club and international level for his physicality and bone crunching tackles, earning him the nickname "Rambo".
Rabeni grew up in Bua, Fiji and has played rugby union since his early schooldays. He first played provincial rugby for Lautoka in 1998–99 while studying at Lautoka Teachers College, before moving on to the capital’s club Suva in 2000. Rabeni made his Sevens debut in Dubai in 1998, playing in two Hong Kong Sevens tournaments. He played at both U21 and U23 level for Fiji before making his test debut in May 2000 against Japan in Tokyo during the Epson Cup tournament. An ankle injury saw him miss the remainder of the tournament.
In 2001, Rabeni took up a three year degree course at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and the following year played 7 games for Otago in the National Provincial Championship before gaining a Super 12 contract with Highlanders for whom he played a dozen games over the 2003 and 2004 season.
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Shane Jennings
Shane Jennings born 8 July 1981 in Dublin, Ireland is a rugby union player for Leinster Rugby in the RaboDirect Pro12 and Heineken Cup.
He is also registered to St. Mary's College RFC who play in AIB League Division 1.
He plays as an Openside Flanker.
Jennings was called into the Ireland A side that was defeated by England Saxons on 1 February 2008.
Jennings impressed for Leinster in the 2004-05 Heineken Cup when Keith Gleeson was injured, however Gleeson returned from injury for the quarter final with Leicester Tigers, having had no previous game time. Leicester had previously identified Jennings as a threat. After the game which Leicester won 29–13, Leicester's retiring openside Neil Back approached Jennings and offered to open contract negotiations. He signed for Leicester for the 2006 season, along with fellow Leinster forward Leo Cullen winning the English Premiership in 2007. He re-signed for Leinster on a three year contract for the start of the 2007/8 season winning the Magners League in 2008 and European Cup in 2009. [1]
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Steve Mafi
Sitiveni O. "Steve" Mafi (born 9 December 1989, Fairfield, New South Wales) is an Australian born rugby player of Tongan heritage who plays flanker or lock for Leicester Tigers and Tonga, having previously played for the New South Wales Waratahs.. He is the grandson of former Tonga captain Sione Mafi Pahulu
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Steve Redfern
Steve Redfern (born in Leicester) is an English rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1970s and '80s, playing representative level rugby union (RU) for England, and a club level for Leicester Tigers, as a tighthead prop, and playing club level rugby league (RL) for Sheffield Eagles.
Redfern signed for Leicester Tigers from school, and played for the youth team. He made his Leicester début against Nottingham in 1976. He made over 247 appearances for the club.
He wore the letter C shirt as part of the Leicester front row along with the Leicester and England captain Peter Wheeler and England prop forward Robin Cowling. He also played over 100 games with his brother Stuart who replaced Cowling at prop when he retired.
Redfern played in five John Player Cup finals, losing the first one to Gloucester, then winning against Moseley, London Irish, and Gosforth.
Redfern was selected for England under 23s in his first year of eligibility, and gained a place in the England under 23 team that toured Canada at the end of the 1977 season. He made his full England début on 14 February 1984 against Ireland at Twickenham, having played various England games for which they did not award caps. He remained a part of the England set up, and played for England 'B' and for the full England team, until he left to go to Rugby league in 1985 with Sheffield Eagles.
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Thomas Waldrom
Thomas Waldrom (born 28 April 1983 in Lower Hutt) is a New Zealand born rugby Number 8 who represents England.
His nickname is Thomas the Tank Engine because of his first name and his tank like stature.
Waldrom made his Wellington Lions provincial debut in 2001 against Otago. He went on to play 80 games for Wellington at provincial level before moving to the Hawke's Bay for the 2009 season. Waldrom had become something of a fan favourite at McLean Park with his high work rate and powerful runs with the ball. In 2009 he helped the Magpies to a semi final, scoring 4 tries along the way.
Waldrom made his Super Rugby debut in 2004 for the Hurricanes against the Stormers. He went on to play 30 caps for the Hurricanes before signing with the Crusaders for the 2009 season.
On February 23, 2010 English Champions Leicester Tigers announced the signing of Waldrom and that he would join the team at the conclusion of the 2010 Super Rugby season.
Waldrom, who discovered only during the 2010–11 season that he was eligible for England (see below), was named to the 45-man England training squad for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. The roster will be cut to 30 before the team leaves for the World Cup. Waldrom was cut from the 30 man squad, however an injury to prop Andrew Sheridan meant he was called in as injury replacement during the world cup final pool stages.
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Tim Stimpson
Timothy Richard George Stimpson (born 10 September 1973 in Liverpool) is a former rugby union international full back (and occasional wing). During his career he played for Wakefield, West Hartlepool, Newcastle Falcons, Leicester Tigers, Perpignan, Leeds Tykes and Nottingham, England and the British Lions. His international career was a start-stop affair, however he excelled at club level. In particular, during his five year spell at Leicester Tigers between 1998–2003, as a goalkicker, he was an integral part of the dominant Leicester side that won the league four times in succession to add to back-to-back Heineken Cup, becoming the Premierships top points scorer in the process (his points total has now been overtaken by both Jonny Wilkinson and Andy Goode).
Stimpson was educated at Silcoates School, Wakefield. In 1992, he went to the University of Durham, where he studied anthropology at Grey College, graduating in 1995.
He went on the 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa and would have played in the tests as first choice full back were it not for the better goal-kicking of Neil Jenkins that would be crucial to the Lions' series victory.
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Toby Flood
Tobias Gerald Albert Lieven "Toby" Flood (born 8 August 1985) is an English rugby union player. He currently plays at Fly Half or Inside Centre for Leicester Tigers, having signed from Newcastle Falcons. He also plays for England.
Toby was born in Frimley, Surrey and comes from a thespian lineage. Both of his grandfathers were actors. His paternal grandfather, Gerald Flood, featured in the television drama series The Ratcatchers. His maternal grandfather was German actor Albert Lieven, who appeared in The Guns of Navarone, and his maternal grandmother was English actress Susan Shaw. His father, Tim, is the programme and marketing manager of The Customs House South Shields.
Flood was raised in Morpeth, Northumberland where he attended Chantry School. He also went to Kings School in Tynemouth. Flood graduated from Northumbria University in 2007 with a degree in business management, and has also undertaken a Graduate Diploma in Law, in preparation for his planned post-rugby career as a lawyer.
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Tom Croft
Tom Croft (born 7 November 1985 in Basingstoke, England) is a rugby union player for Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership.
Croft's best position is blindside flanker, but he can fill in at openside flanker (where he has the pace and can make tackles), and lock (where he is tall enough, and has the power to drive the scrum). He is known for his line-out agility and unusual speed for a forward. He is one of the quickest players in the Tigers squad.
Croft is said to be equally comfortable in the backline, at the bottom of a ruck or jumping at three in the line. According to Dean Richards, Croft "has everything", and former All Black, Aaron Mauger, is quoted as saying he is the quickest back-row forward he has ever seen. Martin Corry believes England have never had a player blessed with Croft's abundant abilities.
Croft went to Oakham School in Rutland. Other sportsmen educated at Oakham include Lewis Moody, Matt Smith, Stuart Broad (who was in the same year) and others. Croft is one of a talented list of young English back-row forwards that includes the likes of Tom Rees, James Haskell, Steffon Armitage, Luke Narraway, Chris Robshaw, Jordan Crane, Tom Wood and Tom Guest.
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Tom Varndell
Tom Varndell (born 16 September 1985 in Ashford, Kent) is an English rugby union footballer who plays on the wing for London Wasps, England and England Sevens. He claims to have been clocked at 10.8 seconds for the 100 metres in his socks on grass. If correct, this suggests that Varndell could run much faster over 100 metres, rendering him as arguably one of the fastest men in World Rugby.
Varndell has played for Aviva Premiership side London Wasps since the start of the 2009/10 season.
Varndell began playing rugby aged 8 at Chinnor rugby club in Oxfordshire before moving to Henley Hawks where he stayed until he was 15 when he was invited by Dusty Hare, the former England full back, who was Leicester's Chief Scout, to train with them. He spent two years at the Tigers' den but left to take up a scholarship at Colston's Collegiate School in Bristol.
Varndell returned to the Tigers in 2004, and made a quick impact in the Premiership. In his second appearance with the Tigers senior side, he recorded the fastest hat trick of tries in Premiership history, doing so in a 13-minute span against Worcester. He finished the 2005-06 Guinness Premiership regular season, top of the try list with 14.
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Tom Youngs
Thomas Nicholas Youngs (born 28 January 1987, Norwich, England) is a rugby union player for Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership. He has also played on loan at Bedford Blues and Nottingham.
Youngs is the son of former Leicester and England scrum-half Nick Youngs, and the elder brother of current Leicester and England scrum-half Ben Youngs.
Originally a centre he changed to play at hooker after advice from then Tigers coach Heyneke Meyer.
Youngs played for Gresham's School and for England Schools, and also for Holt as a junior. He made his Tigers debut against London Irish on Boxing Day 2006, broke his leg after five minutes and came off after thirteen.
In 2007-08, he was a member of the England squad at Rugby sevens.
In the 2008/09 season, Tom has been used in the Leicester "A" team as a hooker, where he is trained by head coach and former hooker Richard Cockerill.
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Tony Underwood
Tony Underwood (born 17 February 1969 in Ipoh, Malaysia) is a former English rugby union footballer who played as a wing three-quarter back. He is of Chinese-English parentage.
His rugby talent was first nurtured at Barnard Castle School. Following his elder brother Rory, he played for Leicester Tigers and England. Tony had another brother called Gary, who played at under 21 level for England. He made his England debut in October 1992 against Canada, and went on to win a total of 27 English caps. Tony and Rory were the first brothers to play for England together since Harold and Arthur Wheatley in England's 1937 6-3 win over Scotland, and partnered in the 1995 Five Nations Grand Slam win.
He played in the Rugby World Cup in 1995, although arguably his most memorable moment in that tournament was when his opposite number, Jonah Lomu, literally ran a ring around him, before powering straight over the tackle of full back Mike Catt to score what would be one of his four tries in that game. In 1995, he left Leicester for Newcastle Falcons. His last cap for England came in December 1998 against South Africa where he was replaced early; England went on to win. He would later star in a famous Pizza Hut advert alongside Lomu.
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Vereniki Goneva
Vereniki Goneva (born 5 April 1984 in Lautoka, Fiji) is a Fijian rugby footballer. He plays as a centre or wing.
He was first spotted by the Fiji sevens coach, Waisale Serevi playing as a wing for Nadi in the Digicel Cup competition and he was impressed by his workrate and included him in the 2007-08 IRB Sevens World Series and he made his debut in the 2nd leg, George Sevens where Fiji lost in the cup final to New Zealand. In the same year he played in the Colonial Cup for the Western Crusaders team but lost in the finals to Coastal Stallions. He was selected into the Fiji Barbarians team for the 2007 Pacific Rugby Cup though the team wasn't able to make the semis, his impressive runs continued and after making his debut for the Fiji sevens team, he jetted off to Rotherham Titans. After a short stint, he came back and rejoined the sevens team. He co-captained the team in the Wellington and San Diego leg. after the 2009 season, he joined the Fiji 15's team for the 2009 IRB Pacific Nations Cup where he was instrumental in the win against Samoa, coming off the bench and scoring the match-winning try and against Japan where he set up the match-winning try to Number 8, Netani Talei. He later got an offer which he took, to play in the French Pro D2 competition for US Colomiers. He was included in the 30-member Fiji squad for the 2009 Autumn Internationals
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Waisale Serevi
Waisale Tikoisolomoni Serevi (born 20 May 1968 in Suva, Fiji) is a former Fijian rugby union footballer, and coach. Although he played fifteen-a-side rugby throughout his playing career, Serevi is most notable for his achievements in rugby sevens. He is widely considered one of the greatest rugby players ever, especially in the game of sevens.
In the 15-man game, he played for Fiji 39 times between 1989 and 2003, and scored 376 points. This included representing Fiji in the 1991, 1999, and 2003 Rugby World Cups. He has also played professionally for the Mitsubishi, Leicester, Stade Montois, Stade Bordelais and Staines rugby teams.
His representative sevens career started in 1989 when he played for Fiji at the Hong Kong tournament. With the exception of 2001, 2003 and 2004 he has played at Hong Kong every year since. Serevi has also played in the 1993, 1997, 2001, and 2005 Rugby World Cup Sevens, winning the World Cup with Fiji in 1997 and 2005. He won silver at the Commonwealth Games in 1998 and 2002, and captured bronze in 2006. Serevi has played in the International Rugby Board Sevens Series since its creation in 1999. In 2005 after winning the 2005 Rugby World Cup Sevens Serevi was appointed the Fiji Sevens team's coach. He coached Fiji to the 2005/2006 IRB Sevens Series victory – the first time the series was not won by New Zealand.
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Will Greenwood
William John Heaton "Will" Greenwood, MBE (born 20 October 1972 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is an English former rugby union player of the 1990s and 2000s. He played in the centres, mainly at inside-centre, although he was able to play at outside-centre.
Greenwood was educated at Sedbergh School where he was in the first team for Rugby and Cricket. He graduated with a BA in Economics from Hatfield College, Durham in 1994.
He played his club rugby for the Harlequins, having also played for Preston Grasshoppers, Waterloo and Leicester Tigers.
His father Dick Greenwood played at flanker for and later coached the England Rugby Union team. He left Harlequins and moved to Leicester Tigers in 1996 because the presence of England centre Will Carling meant he could not get first team rugby.
He was overlooked by the England coach Jack Rowell, but was selected for the 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa still uncapped, and ahead of then England captain Phil de Glanville. During the tour, he swallowed his tongue on the pitch after a collision and stopped breathing for several minutes, and did not play in any of the tests. This was one of the few games where Greenwood, contrary to his superstition, wore a number 12 jersey. He also toured with the Lions in 2001 but injury again prevented him from playing.
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Winston Stanley
Winston Ulysses Stanley (born on July 17, 1974 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian rugby union footballer. He played wing for University of British Columbia, in Canada, later moving to English club Leicester Tigers.
He earned 66 caps for Canada. He made his debut on May 21, 1994 against the United States. He played at the 1995 Rugby World Cup finals and the 2003 Rugby World Cup finals.
Winston was part of the Leicester Tigers team that won the Heineken Cup, Zurich Premiership, and the Championship play-off in 2001.
He is currently a player/coach for the Velox-Valhallians club in Victoria, playing in the B.C. Premier League.
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Leicester Tigers vs Ospreys Heineken Cup 2012-2013
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Leicester Tigers vs Ospreys Heineken Cup 2012-2013
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Leicester Tigers vs Ospreys Heineken Cup 2012-2013
Leicester Tigers Soccer AM Crossbar Challenge
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The Leicester Tigers take on the Soccer AM Crossbar Challenge.....
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The Leicester Tigers take on the Soccer AM Crossbar Challenge.....
- published: 23 Jan 2009
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Leicester Tigers vs Saracens Final 2010
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- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
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- published: 02 Jun 2010
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Guinness Behind the Badge - Leicester Tigers - Series 3 Episode 6 | Premiership Rugby
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- Duration: 10:01
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Martin Bayfield presents Behind The Badge, back again with new sponsor Guinness, visiting the Leicester Tigers this week, meeting the team and talking to the team coach Richard Cockerill. To find out more about Premiership Rugby visit: www.premiershiprugby.com Premiership Rugby on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Tags: "Leicester Tigers" "Martin Bayfield" "Richard Cockerill" new zealand NZ world cup 2012 all blacks england france sport scotland wales australia south africa sa tries hits dropgoal Premiership Highlights rugby union Gloucester Bath London Irish Northampton Harlequins Wasps Exeter Sale Newcastle Leeds Carnegie round 7-0 5-0 0-5 0-7 7-5 5-7 10-0 9-0 0-10 0-9 11-0 0-11 romania georgia namibia canada USA america US
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Martin Bayfield presents Behind The Badge, back again with new sponsor Guinness, visiting the Leicester Tigers this week, meeting the team and talking to the team coach Richard Cockerill. To find out more about Premiership Rugby visit: www.premiershiprugby.com Premiership Rugby on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Tags: "Leicester Tigers" "Martin Bayfield" "Richard Cockerill" new zealand NZ world cup 2012 all blacks england france sport scotland wales australia south africa sa tries hits dropgoal Premiership Highlights rugby union Gloucester Bath London Irish Northampton Harlequins Wasps Exeter Sale Newcastle Leeds Carnegie round 7-0 5-0 0-5 0-7 7-5 5-7 10-0 9-0 0-10 0-9 11-0 0-11 romania georgia namibia canada USA america US
- published: 20 Apr 2012
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Aviva Premiership (2012-2013): London Irish - Leicester Tigers
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- Duration: 87:08
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
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Rugby Union, Heineken Cup 2012-13, Leicester Tigers vs Ospreys 2nd half.
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Rugby Union, Heineken Cup 2012-13, Leicester Tigers vs Ospreys at Welford Road, Leicester.
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Rugby Union, Heineken Cup 2012-13, Leicester Tigers vs Ospreys at Welford Road, Leicester.
- published: 23 Oct 2012
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- author: Matthew MMRugby
Leicester Tigers vs Northampton Saints Aviva Premiership 2012-2013
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- Duration: 96:36
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Leicester Tigers vs Northampton Saints Aviva Premiership 2012-2013
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Leicester Tigers vs Northampton Saints Aviva Premiership 2012-2013
- published: 04 Nov 2012
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- author: Jammy Twang
Leicester Tigers vs Gloucester Rugby Aviva Premiership 2012-2013
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- Duration: 98:17
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Leicester Tigers vs Gloucester Rugby Aviva Premiership 2012-2013
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Leicester Tigers vs Gloucester Rugby Aviva Premiership 2012-2013
- published: 30 Dec 2012
- views: 855
- author: Jammy Twang
Leicester Tigers 34 - 26 Worcester Warriors | Aviva Premiership 2012/13
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- Duration: 1:51
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Leicester Tigers 34 - 26 Worcester Warriors The official Youtube channel of Premiership Rugby with exclusive news, match highlights, player profiles and more. To find out more about Premiership Rugby visit: www.premiershiprugby.com Premiership Rugby on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Manu Tuilagi's quickfire double proved the difference as Leicester Tigers held off a spirited Worcester Warriors side to claim a 34-26 bonus-point win at Welford Road. The England centre crossed twice in the first 12 minutes as the Aviva Premiership finalists from the last two years threatened to run riot against the visitors who have never won at the home of the Tigers. But a breakaway score from David Lemi after half-time as well as some dead-eyed goalkicking from Andy Goode kept them within touching distance until a penalty try and a score from lock Graham Kitchener put the result beyond doubt. The Warriors scored a second try in the final minute through Goode but still fell agonisingly short of the losing bonus point. Worcester's last victory on their travels in the Aviva Premiership was on New Year's Day 2012 at London Wasps and they certainly did not help themselves with the way they started against Richard Cockerill's men. Tuilagi was the beneficiary after a quick turnover on their own 22 set in motion a quite wonderful team move that saw the ball spread all the way right then back left to put the 21-year-old over in the corner with barely a minute played ...
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Leicester Tigers 34 - 26 Worcester Warriors The official Youtube channel of Premiership Rugby with exclusive news, match highlights, player profiles and more. To find out more about Premiership Rugby visit: www.premiershiprugby.com Premiership Rugby on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Manu Tuilagi's quickfire double proved the difference as Leicester Tigers held off a spirited Worcester Warriors side to claim a 34-26 bonus-point win at Welford Road. The England centre crossed twice in the first 12 minutes as the Aviva Premiership finalists from the last two years threatened to run riot against the visitors who have never won at the home of the Tigers. But a breakaway score from David Lemi after half-time as well as some dead-eyed goalkicking from Andy Goode kept them within touching distance until a penalty try and a score from lock Graham Kitchener put the result beyond doubt. The Warriors scored a second try in the final minute through Goode but still fell agonisingly short of the losing bonus point. Worcester's last victory on their travels in the Aviva Premiership was on New Year's Day 2012 at London Wasps and they certainly did not help themselves with the way they started against Richard Cockerill's men. Tuilagi was the beneficiary after a quick turnover on their own 22 set in motion a quite wonderful team move that saw the ball spread all the way right then back left to put the 21-year-old over in the corner with barely a minute played ...
- published: 11 Sep 2012
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Three Red Cards, Two Sin - Bins And A KO! - Leicester Tigers vs Bath 17 - 12 Aviva Premiership 2012
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- Duration: 2:08
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Wow, what a game! Were the consequences fair? Let us know in the comments below.
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Wow, what a game! Were the consequences fair? Let us know in the comments below.
- published: 05 Dec 2012
- views: 1505
- author: RugbyRugbyLad
Leicester Tigers vs London Irish Aviva Premiership 2012-2013
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- Duration: 87:08
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Leicester Tigers vs London Irish Aviva Premiership 2012-2013
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Leicester Tigers vs London Irish Aviva Premiership 2012-2013
- published: 23 Dec 2012
- views: 641
- author: Jammy Twang
Rugby Union, Heineken Cup 2012-13 Leicester Tigers vs Benetton Treviso.
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Rugby Union, Heineken Cup 2012-13 Leicester Tigers vs Benetton Treviso at Welford Road, Leicester.
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Rugby Union, Heineken Cup 2012-13 Leicester Tigers vs Benetton Treviso at Welford Road, Leicester.
- published: 12 Dec 2012
- views: 713
- author: Matthew MMRugby
Leicester Tigers 17 - 12 Gloucester Rugby - Round 12 Highlights | Aviva Premiership Rugby
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- Duration: 1:45
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Anthony Allen scored the decisive try against his former club as Leicester Tigers edged Gloucester Rugby 17-12 in treacherous conditions at a rain-lashed Welford Road to go second in the Aviva Premiership. The Official YouTube channel of Premiership Rugby with exclusive news, match highlights, player profiles and more. To find out more about Premiership Rugby visit: www.premiershiprugby.com Premiership Rugby on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com
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Anthony Allen scored the decisive try against his former club as Leicester Tigers edged Gloucester Rugby 17-12 in treacherous conditions at a rain-lashed Welford Road to go second in the Aviva Premiership. The Official YouTube channel of Premiership Rugby with exclusive news, match highlights, player profiles and more. To find out more about Premiership Rugby visit: www.premiershiprugby.com Premiership Rugby on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com
- published: 03 Jan 2013
- views: 300
- author: PremiershipRugby
Leicester Tigers 30-25 Northampton Saints - Aviva Premiership Rugby Highlights Round 10 | 03-12-11
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- Duration: 2:00
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Late try gives Tigers the derby points Leicester Tigers snatched a dramatic bonus-point win over Northampton Saints in a pulsating East Midlands showdown at Welford Road. The match was contested by two teams of 14 for over an hour after Chris Ashton's clash with Alesana Tuilagi resulted in red cards for the Tigers winger and Northampton flanker Tom Wood. Leicester led after tries from Matt Smith, Steve Mafi and Ben Youngs, Ashton with Northampton's only reply at that stage. Tom May cut the deficit and Ashton set up Phil Dowson to put the Saints ahead for the first time since the opening 10 minutes, but Horacio Agulla edged the Tigers back in front late on. After a spell of Northampton pressure which saw referee Wayne Barnes knocked off his feet by a runner, an offside infringement allowed Ryan Lamb to boot the Saints in front. Toby Flood equalised in the 11th minute before the game burst into life. Ashton had barged into a couple of physical challenges early on. And it spilled over as Ashton tackled Tuilagi's elder brother Alesana out of play by his hair, sparking a fracas against the front of the stand which engulfed a dozen players and an unfortunate ball-boy. Despite not connecting with a punch, Alesana Tuilagi was red-carded along with Wood, who was spotted by the far-side touch judge throwing two punches. Agulla and team-mate Geordan Murphy were, like Ashton, fortunate to escape punishment. A lightning Saints break led by Ben Foden was stopped by Smith's tackle on ...
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Late try gives Tigers the derby points Leicester Tigers snatched a dramatic bonus-point win over Northampton Saints in a pulsating East Midlands showdown at Welford Road. The match was contested by two teams of 14 for over an hour after Chris Ashton's clash with Alesana Tuilagi resulted in red cards for the Tigers winger and Northampton flanker Tom Wood. Leicester led after tries from Matt Smith, Steve Mafi and Ben Youngs, Ashton with Northampton's only reply at that stage. Tom May cut the deficit and Ashton set up Phil Dowson to put the Saints ahead for the first time since the opening 10 minutes, but Horacio Agulla edged the Tigers back in front late on. After a spell of Northampton pressure which saw referee Wayne Barnes knocked off his feet by a runner, an offside infringement allowed Ryan Lamb to boot the Saints in front. Toby Flood equalised in the 11th minute before the game burst into life. Ashton had barged into a couple of physical challenges early on. And it spilled over as Ashton tackled Tuilagi's elder brother Alesana out of play by his hair, sparking a fracas against the front of the stand which engulfed a dozen players and an unfortunate ball-boy. Despite not connecting with a punch, Alesana Tuilagi was red-carded along with Wood, who was spotted by the far-side touch judge throwing two punches. Agulla and team-mate Geordan Murphy were, like Ashton, fortunate to escape punishment. A lightning Saints break led by Ben Foden was stopped by Smith's tackle on ...
- published: 05 Dec 2011
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Behind the Scenes with Leicester Tigers -- Kit Revealed
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- Duration: 2:49
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
Last week Canterbury announced a 3 year kit deal with Leicester Tigers and showed a little teaser of the new kit, now the moment you have all been waiting for, here is the behind the scenes footage from the photo shoot that shows the players in their full CCC kit and more......hope you like it!
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Last week Canterbury announced a 3 year kit deal with Leicester Tigers and showed a little teaser of the new kit, now the moment you have all been waiting for, here is the behind the scenes footage from the photo shoot that shows the players in their full CCC kit and more......hope you like it!
- published: 27 Apr 2012
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Leicester Tigers v Gloucester Highlights
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- Duration: 6:58
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
All credit goes to Aviva Premiership Rugby. Leicester- 17 Tries: Allen Pens: Ford 3, Murphy Gloucester- 12 Pens : Burns 4 Twitter: www.twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com
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All credit goes to Aviva Premiership Rugby. Leicester- 17 Tries: Allen Pens: Ford 3, Murphy Gloucester- 12 Pens : Burns 4 Twitter: www.twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com
- published: 31 Dec 2012
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Leicester Tigers vs Bath Rugby 17 - 12 | Aviva Premiership Rugby 2012/13
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- Duration: 2:08
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Leicester Tigers vs Bath Rugby 17 - 12 The Official YouTube channel of Premiership Rugby with exclusive news, match highlights, player profiles and more. To find out more about Premiership Rugby visit: www.premiershiprugby.com Premiership Rugby on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Adam Thompstone's second-half try and the mis-firing boot of George Ford was enough to see Leicester Tigers squeeze past Bath Rugby in an ill-tempered Aviva Premiership affair at Welford Road. Bath held a 5-0 advantage at half-time thanks to Stephen Donald's try and extended their lead after the break, following a couple of Ford penalties, through a Tom Biggs score. But the referee then took centre stage as three red cards were shown, two to Bath for Francois Louw and Matt Banahan and one for Tigers' Brett Deacon. And Leicester made the most of the man advantage as wing Thompstone touched down and Ford added the rest of the points with the boot to see his side over the line. There were only four minutes on the clock when Donald had his first shot at the posts after Horacio Agulla's chip and chase was blocked by Deacon, but the Kiwi's effort flew wide of the right upright. He could have been made to rue that miss six minutes later as Ford lined up his own penalty attempt in front of the posts, but his kick went left of the posts and the scores remained unchanged. But all that changed on 14 minutes as Donald made amends for his earlier mis-kick with his second Aviva ...
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Leicester Tigers vs Bath Rugby 17 - 12 The Official YouTube channel of Premiership Rugby with exclusive news, match highlights, player profiles and more. To find out more about Premiership Rugby visit: www.premiershiprugby.com Premiership Rugby on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Adam Thompstone's second-half try and the mis-firing boot of George Ford was enough to see Leicester Tigers squeeze past Bath Rugby in an ill-tempered Aviva Premiership affair at Welford Road. Bath held a 5-0 advantage at half-time thanks to Stephen Donald's try and extended their lead after the break, following a couple of Ford penalties, through a Tom Biggs score. But the referee then took centre stage as three red cards were shown, two to Bath for Francois Louw and Matt Banahan and one for Tigers' Brett Deacon. And Leicester made the most of the man advantage as wing Thompstone touched down and Ford added the rest of the points with the boot to see his side over the line. There were only four minutes on the clock when Donald had his first shot at the posts after Horacio Agulla's chip and chase was blocked by Deacon, but the Kiwi's effort flew wide of the right upright. He could have been made to rue that miss six minutes later as Ford lined up his own penalty attempt in front of the posts, but his kick went left of the posts and the scores remained unchanged. But all that changed on 14 minutes as Donald made amends for his earlier mis-kick with his second Aviva ...
- published: 04 Dec 2012
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London Welsh 13-38 Leicester Tigers | Aviva Premiership 2012/13
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London Welsh 13-38 Leicester Tigers | Aviva Premiership 2012/13 The official Youtube channel of Premiership Rugby with exclusive news, match highlights, player profiles and more. To find out more about Premiership Rugby visit: www.premiershiprugby.com Premiership Rugby on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Thomas Waldrom touched down twice as Leicester continued their free-scoring ways of last season with a bonus-point 38-13 win over Aviva Premiership new boys London Welsh on Sunday. Both of the England No.8's tries came in the opening quarter as the Tigers threatened to run riot at the Kassam Stadium but London Welsh proved they will be no pushovers this season with a spirited display. Tom Arscott and Hudson Tonga'uiha got themselves on the scoresheet for the Exiles but scores soon after the interval from Geoff Parling and Julian Salvi effectively sealed Leicester's win. Coming into the clash Richard Cockerill's troops, the top try scorers in the Aviva Premiership last year, had lost their opening fixtures in the last three consecutive seasons. But they looked in control for the majority of this clash with Lyn Jones' hastily assembled Welsh squad, Toby Flood slotting over a penalty in the ninth minute to open the scoring. Five minutes later and the Tigers were purring as Tom Youngs and Anthony Allen combined in midfield to put Waldrom over in the corner, Flood adding a tricky conversion for 10-0. The next ten minutes were all Leicester as they ...
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London Welsh 13-38 Leicester Tigers | Aviva Premiership 2012/13 The official Youtube channel of Premiership Rugby with exclusive news, match highlights, player profiles and more. To find out more about Premiership Rugby visit: www.premiershiprugby.com Premiership Rugby on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com Thomas Waldrom touched down twice as Leicester continued their free-scoring ways of last season with a bonus-point 38-13 win over Aviva Premiership new boys London Welsh on Sunday. Both of the England No.8's tries came in the opening quarter as the Tigers threatened to run riot at the Kassam Stadium but London Welsh proved they will be no pushovers this season with a spirited display. Tom Arscott and Hudson Tonga'uiha got themselves on the scoresheet for the Exiles but scores soon after the interval from Geoff Parling and Julian Salvi effectively sealed Leicester's win. Coming into the clash Richard Cockerill's troops, the top try scorers in the Aviva Premiership last year, had lost their opening fixtures in the last three consecutive seasons. But they looked in control for the majority of this clash with Lyn Jones' hastily assembled Welsh squad, Toby Flood slotting over a penalty in the ninth minute to open the scoring. Five minutes later and the Tigers were purring as Tom Youngs and Anthony Allen combined in midfield to put Waldrom over in the corner, Flood adding a tricky conversion for 10-0. The next ten minutes were all Leicester as they ...
- published: 04 Sep 2012
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Rugby Heineken Cup Ospreys vs Leicester Tigers Live Online
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- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
"Leicester Tigers vs Ospreys Live Online www.watchxrugbyonline.com Venue Swansea, Heineken Cup, 13 January 2013, Watch Leicester Tigers vs Ospreys Live Stream Online www.watchxrugbyonline.com 15:00 local, 15:00 GMT Don't miss out,"
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"Leicester Tigers vs Ospreys Live Online www.watchxrugbyonline.com Venue Swansea, Heineken Cup, 13 January 2013, Watch Leicester Tigers vs Ospreys Live Stream Online www.watchxrugbyonline.com 15:00 local, 15:00 GMT Don't miss out,"
- published: 12 Jan 2013
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mac tv pro Rugby 2012 - Leicester Tigers 15 15 Ospreys - Rugby Sunday - Liberty Stadium
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Leicester Tigers v London Irish Highlights
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London Irish- 9 Pens: Humphreys 3 Leicester- 31 Tries: Morris 2, Penalty 2 Cons: Flood 4 Pens: Flood Twitter: www.twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com
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London Irish- 9 Pens: Humphreys 3 Leicester- 31 Tries: Morris 2, Penalty 2 Cons: Flood 4 Pens: Flood Twitter: www.twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com
- published: 23 Dec 2012
- views: 421
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Leicester Tigers v Exeter Chiefs 30 - 8 | Aviva Premiership 2012/13
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- Duration: 1:39
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
Leicester Tigers v Exeter Chiefs 30 - 8 The official Youtube channel of Premiership Rugby with exclusive news, match highlights, player profiles and more. To find out more about Premiership Rugby visit: www.premiershiprugby.com Premiership Rugby on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com A hat-trick from summer signing Adam Thompstone resoundingly ended Leicester Tigers' spell of two Aviva Premiership games without a try against Exeter Chiefs and helped his new side to a 30-8 victory. Leicester topped the try scoring charts last season and Thompstone was brought to Welford Road to soften the blow of losing their top strike runner Alesana Tuilagi to NTT Shining Arcs in Japan. Coming into the game the Tigers hadn't scored a try in 166 minutes of action but Thompstone was in no mood to let that run continue and got his club account underway after six minutes. As well as Thompstone's two second-half tries, Toby Flood kicked three penalties and three conversions while Exeter only troubled the scorers with a Ignacio Mieres penalty and a try at the death from replacement Ben White. Thompstone, the former London Irish wing, had fellow new arrival Vereniki Goneva to thank for his first try after the big Fijian burst through the heart of the Chiefs defence from an inside pass from Flood. From the ensuing ruck when the ball came back Flood spread the play to the right and Thomas Waldrom passed on to Thompstone to run in. Flood hit a touchline conversion for a 7-3 ...
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Leicester Tigers v Exeter Chiefs 30 - 8 The official Youtube channel of Premiership Rugby with exclusive news, match highlights, player profiles and more. To find out more about Premiership Rugby visit: www.premiershiprugby.com Premiership Rugby on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com A hat-trick from summer signing Adam Thompstone resoundingly ended Leicester Tigers' spell of two Aviva Premiership games without a try against Exeter Chiefs and helped his new side to a 30-8 victory. Leicester topped the try scoring charts last season and Thompstone was brought to Welford Road to soften the blow of losing their top strike runner Alesana Tuilagi to NTT Shining Arcs in Japan. Coming into the game the Tigers hadn't scored a try in 166 minutes of action but Thompstone was in no mood to let that run continue and got his club account underway after six minutes. As well as Thompstone's two second-half tries, Toby Flood kicked three penalties and three conversions while Exeter only troubled the scorers with a Ignacio Mieres penalty and a try at the death from replacement Ben White. Thompstone, the former London Irish wing, had fellow new arrival Vereniki Goneva to thank for his first try after the big Fijian burst through the heart of the Chiefs defence from an inside pass from Flood. From the ensuing ruck when the ball came back Flood spread the play to the right and Thomas Waldrom passed on to Thompstone to run in. Flood hit a touchline conversion for a 7-3 ...
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Aviva Premiership Round 2 Leicester V Worcester Full Match
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- Duration: 96:22
- Updated: 04 Nov 2012
Like My Pages: www.facebook.com www.facebook.com Leicester Tigers: 15 Geordan Murphy (capt), 14 Scott Hamilton, 13 Manusamoa Tuilagi, 12 Anthony Allen, 11 Vereniki Goneva, 10 Toby Flood, 9 Sam Harrison, 8 Thomas Waldrom, 7 Julian Salvi, 6 Steve Mafi, 5 Geoff Parling, 4 Graham Kitchener, 3 Martin Castrogiovanni, 2 Tom Youngs, 1 Boris Stankovich. Replacements: 16 Rob Hawkins, 17 Logovi'i Mulipola, 18 Dan Cole, 19 Rob Andrew, 20 Jordan Crane, 21 Pat Phibbs, 22 George Ford, 23 Matt Smith. Worcester Warriors: 15 Chris Pennell, 14 Josh Drauniniu, 13 Alex Grove, 12 Josh Matavesi, 11 David Lemi, 10 Andy Goode, 9 Shaun Perry, 8 Semisi Taulava, 7 Sam Betty, 6 Chris Jones, 5 Dean Schofield (capt), 4 James Percival, 3 John Andress, 2 Aleki Lutui, 1 Matt Mullan. Replacements: 16 Ollie Hayes, 17 Ceri Jones, 18 James Currie, 19 Craig Gillies, 20 Matt Kvesic, 21 Jonny Arr, 22 Joe Carlisle, 23 Ben Howard.
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Like My Pages: www.facebook.com www.facebook.com Leicester Tigers: 15 Geordan Murphy (capt), 14 Scott Hamilton, 13 Manusamoa Tuilagi, 12 Anthony Allen, 11 Vereniki Goneva, 10 Toby Flood, 9 Sam Harrison, 8 Thomas Waldrom, 7 Julian Salvi, 6 Steve Mafi, 5 Geoff Parling, 4 Graham Kitchener, 3 Martin Castrogiovanni, 2 Tom Youngs, 1 Boris Stankovich. Replacements: 16 Rob Hawkins, 17 Logovi'i Mulipola, 18 Dan Cole, 19 Rob Andrew, 20 Jordan Crane, 21 Pat Phibbs, 22 George Ford, 23 Matt Smith. Worcester Warriors: 15 Chris Pennell, 14 Josh Drauniniu, 13 Alex Grove, 12 Josh Matavesi, 11 David Lemi, 10 Andy Goode, 9 Shaun Perry, 8 Semisi Taulava, 7 Sam Betty, 6 Chris Jones, 5 Dean Schofield (capt), 4 James Percival, 3 John Andress, 2 Aleki Lutui, 1 Matt Mullan. Replacements: 16 Ollie Hayes, 17 Ceri Jones, 18 James Currie, 19 Craig Gillies, 20 Matt Kvesic, 21 Jonny Arr, 22 Joe Carlisle, 23 Ben Howard.
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"Leicester Football Club" redirects here. For Leicester City football club, see Leicester City F.C..
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| Founded | 1880 | ||
| Location | Leicester, England | ||
| Ground(s) | Welford Road (Capacity: 24,000; expanding to 30,000) | ||
| Chairman |  Peter Tom |
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| Coach(es) | Richard Cockerill |
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| Captain(s) |  Geordan Murphy |
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| League(s) | Aviva Premiership | ||
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Leicester Tigers (officially Leicester Football Club) is an English rugby union club that plays in the Aviva Premiership.
Leicester are the most successful English club since the introduction of league rugby in 1987, a record 9 times English champions - 3 more than either Bath or Wasps, the last of which was in 2010. Leicester have also appeared in a record eight successive Premiership finals since 2005. The Tigers have never finished a league season below 6th position, and are one of only four teams (along with Gloucester, Bath and Wasps) never to have been relegated from the top division. Leicester are also the only English side to have qualified to play in every Heineken Cup in which English teams have participated, and are also the most successful English side in Europe; back-to-back champions in 2001 and 2002 and losing finalists in 1997, 2007 and 2009.
The club's turnover for 2009–10 was £18.5 million.[1]
Leicester's rivalry with Northampton is known as the East Midlands Derby.
The Leicester Tigers recently announced a new 3 year apparel deal with Canterbury, with the new strip in action from May 3rd 2012.[2]
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History[link]
Early years[link]
Leicester Football Club was formed in a meeting held in the city's George Hotel on August 1880 by the merger of three smaller teams: Leicester Societies AFC, Leicester Amateur FC and Leicester Alert. That October, the new club wore black for their first game against Moseley at the Belgrave Cricket and Cycle Ground.
It was not until five years or so later that the nickname "Tigers" was first used, the Leicester Daily Post reporting that "the Tiger stripes were keeping well together". The origin of the nickname is uncertain, but it may have come from the Leicestershire Regiment (which became in 1946 The Royal Leicestershire Regiment). The Regiment had received the nickname 'Tigers' after serving in India, and from 1825 had worn a cap-badge with a 'royal' tiger to mark the connection. An alternative theory is that the team wore a brown and yellow striped shirt. In their early years, they were also known as "The Death or Glory Boys".
The now-famous scarlet, green and white jerseys were not introduced until 1891, although these were in a vertical stripe formation until the distinctive hoops were first worn in September 1895.
They moved in 1892 to their present ground at Welford Road, Leicester. Having won the Midlands Cup every year from 1898 to 1905, they dropped out "to give other teams a chance".[3]
In the 1926/27 season, Leicester started using letters to identify their forwards, expanding the practice by 1931/32 to the whole team.
Post war[link]
With the arrival of Chalkie White in 1968, things began to improve significantly. He was a very progressive coach who demanded high standards of fitness and tactics. His unique style of coaching brought success on the pitch, and with that success came increased attendances.
Leicester started to grow as a club towards the end of the 1970s. At the start of the decade, the club had just 600–700 members and gates were less than 1,000. By 1980, the Tigers had reached their first cup final, and the club was on its way towards a substantial period of growth.
During 1970s the team played in front of a packed stadium during the annual Boxing Day Barbarians event (in contrast with the usual 750–2,000 spectators). With the advent of professionalism in the mid 1990s, with league fixtures being played over the Christmas period, regular games against the Barbarians have stopped.
A first Twickenham final appearance ended in defeat by Gloucester in the John Player Cup in 1978, but the Tigers won the next three against Moseley (15–12), London Irish (21–9) and Gosforth (22–15). This meant they were allowed to keep the trophy. The fifth final was a loss to Bristol in 1983.
In August 1980, Leicester became the first English club to go on a tour in the southern hemisphere, where they played six games in Australia and Fiji to mark the club's centenary.
In the 1980s, the club still enjoyed the benefits of amateur rugby, with nights away and Easter tours, although off the pitch the Tigers were taking their first steps towards corporate sponsorship. When they beat Waterloo on the last day of the 1987/88 season, the Tigers became England’s first official champions.
Nineties and onwards[link]
The early 1990s saw the emergence of Leicester's renowned ABC Club, so called because of the letters the front row players wore on their backs, with Graham Rowntree, hooker Richard Cockerill and Darren Garforth.
Leicester began one of the greatest winning streaks of any team. This streak started when a young pack helped Leicester to defeat Harlequins 23–16 in the 1993 cup final. They were English champions again in 1995, won the Pilkington Cup in 1997 (9–3 against Sale) and were the first English team to get to the Heineken Cup final before losing to Brive in the same year. In the 1996 cup final, Tigers lost to Bath (which was just finishing its own great domination of English rugby) after Steve Lander gave a contentious penalty try to in the last minute which sealed their victory. After the match Neil Back pushed over Lander landing himself a six month ban.
From 1999 to 2002, under the captaincy of Martin Johnson and the management of Dean Richards, who became Director of Rugby for the club in February 1998, they won four consecutive Premiership titles and the first Zürich Championship play-offs,[4] bringing their total of league championships to six — tied with Bath for most wins.
They also won the Heineken Cup in 2001 and 2002 — the only side to date who have managed to win the competition in consecutive seasons. Leicester defeated Stade Français (34–30) in 2001, and Munster (15–9) in 2002.
Leicester during this time had a very good home record; they went 57 games unbeaten at home in a period that stretched from 30 December 1997 to 30 November 2002 and included 52 successive wins. During these four seasons Leicester lost only 14 games out of the 92 they played.
In the 2003 Rugby World Cup, the club had seven representatives in the winning England squad: Martin Johnson (captain), Neil Back, Martin Corry, Ben Kay, Lewis Moody, Dorian West and Julian White. However while these players were away, Leicester's form suffered and they were 11th in the league and dumped out of the Heineken cup in the group stages when they decided to sack Dean Richards who was succeeded by the forwards' coach John Wells.
Post Richards era[link]
In John Wells' first full season in charge of the team Leicester finished the regular season top of the league, also progressing to the semi-final of the Heineken cup before defeat to Toulouse at the Walkers Stadium. In Martin Johnson and Neil Back's last game for Leicester they lost the Premiership Final to Wasps. After this game John Wells left Leicester to take up a position in the RFU's coaching academy, eventually rising to England forwards coach. He was succeeded by Pat Howard
In 2005/06, the Tigers finished second to the Sale Sharks in the league before losing to the same team in the Premiership final. They again proceeded to the knockout stages of the Heineken Cup, again they lost at the Walkers Stadium to Bath. In the new Anglo-Welsh Cup Leicester won their group but lost in the semi-finals to Wasps at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.
Over the summer of 2006, they added a number of promising forwards especially Jordan Crane, the Number 8, who arrived from Leeds Tykes with a good reputation following the U21 World Cup in France.
Leicester won their first piece of silverware for five years on 15 April 2007, beating the Ospreys 41–35 with tries from Tom Varndell, Tom Croft, Ben Kay and Alesana Tuilagi to win the EDF Energy Cup at Twickenham Stadium. This was quickly repeated with Guinness Premiership success on 12 May at Twickenham with a 44–16 win over Gloucester. However Leicester failed to win an unprecedented treble, by losing the Heineken Cup Final at Twickenham on 20 May to London Wasps.
It was announced on 28 December 2006 that the head coach Pat Howard would leave the club at the end of the season, to return to his native Australia.[5] He was succeeded by the then-head coach of Argentina, Marcelo Loffreda after the 2007 Rugby World Cup.[6] Loffreda guided Leicester through the group stages of the EDF cup to the semi final where they defeated Wasps in a knock-out game for the first time since the 1980s. This set up a rematch of the previous years final against the Ospreys, which Leicester lost. After losing all away games in the Heineken Cup that season Leicester failed to progress to the quarter finals. In the league Leicester struggled until a last minute last day try by Tom Varndell beat Harlequins to set up a rematch of the previous seasons Premiership Final against Gloucester. Once again Leicester were successful late on, this time utilising Andy Goode's kicking to secure a last minute victory. In the final they had no such luck losing to perennial rivals London Wasps. After this final; despite guiding Leicester to two Twickenham finals and only being in the job 7 months Loffreda was sacked.
Heyneke Meyer was the board's choice to replace Loffreda, however unfortunate family circumstances led to his resignation. Richard Cockerill took over until the end of the season, having guided Leicester to a home Heineken Cup quarter final against Bath. He was appointed head coach on 17 April 2009.[7]
On Sunday 3 May 2009 Leicester Tigers made history in their Heineken cup semi-final against Cardiff Blues when a place kicking competition was required to decide the outcome for the first time. The teams were drawing 26–26 after normal time and there was no score during extra time. As both teams had scored two tries the place kicking competition was the decider. Leicester won this 7–6 after backrow forwards Craig Newby and Jordan Crane both succeeded with their place kicks. In the 2009 Premiership final Leicester beat London Irish (10–9), with a try from Crane and 5 points from the boot of Dupuy. The following week Leicester lost the Heineken Cup final in Edinburgh to Irish province Leinster, containing former Leicester favourites captain Leo Cullen and openside Shane Jennings.
On Friday November the 6th Leicester hosted the world champion Springboks to mark the opening of the new CAT stand. In a tight and compelling match a young Leicester side triumphed 22–17, with a try from Lucas González Amorosino and 17 points from scrum half Ben Youngs.
Leicester hold the record for the biggest wins in both the Heineken Cup (90–19 demolition of Glasgow in 1997), and the English Premiership (83–10 defeat of Newcastle Falcons in 2005). Leicester also hold the record for most titles (8), the most consecutive Premiership Final appearances (6), most (first) away semi-final victories in the Premiership play-offs.
Premiership play-offs[link]
In the last seven seasons Leicester have reached the final of the Premiership, finishing first in the regular season league table in 2004/05, second in 2005/06 and 2006/07, fourth in 2007/08 and first in 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2010/11. They lost their first two finals to London Wasps and Sale Sharks respectively. On 5 May 2007, Leicester defeated Bristol 26–14 to reach the Premiership play-off final for the third consecutive year, where they defeated Gloucester 44–16 at Twickenham to win their first ever title via the playoffs.[8] On 18 May 2008, Leicester defeated Gloucester at Kingsholm to become the first team to win a Guinness Premiership semi-final playoff away from home. However this season also ended in defeat as London Wasps won their sixth title, fourth via the play-offs. They won the 2008/09 final against London Irish, and the 2009/10 final against Saracens. The Tigers reached the 2010/11 final for a rematch with Saracens having again topped the table above them despite winning fewer games, however after a nailbiting finish which saw a record breaking 7 minutes overtime played during which the Tigers went through 32 phases camped on the Saracens try line before conceding a penalty which awarded Saracens their revenge for the previous years defeat.
These eight consecutive finals is a record for consecutive appearances in a play-off final under the current format.
Current standings[link]
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| 1 | Harlequins (C) | 22 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 526 | 389 | +137 | 53 | 33 | 4 | 1 | 75 | ||||
| 2 | Leicester Tigers (F) | 22 | 15 | 1 | 6 | 647 | 475 | +172 | 69 | 45 | 9 | 3 | 74 | ||||
| 3 | Saracens (SF) | 22 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 489 | 350 | +139 | 35 | 30 | 3 | 4 | 73 | ||||
| 4 | Northampton Saints (SF) | 22 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 539 | 374 | +165 | 51 | 31 | 5 | 4 | 65 | ||||
| 5 | Exeter Chiefs | 22 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 436 | 421 | +15 | 39 | 38 | 3 | 8 | 59 | ||||
| 6 | Sale Sharks | 22 | 10 | 0 | 12 | 453 | 538 | -85 | 42 | 46 | 2 | 7 | 49 | ||||
| 7 | London Irish | 22 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 514 | 516 | -2 | 46 | 43 | 3 | 9 | 46 | ||||
| 8 | Bath Rugby | 22 | 9 | 0 | 13 | 365 | 412 | -47 | 32 | 28 | 2 | 6 | 44 | ||||
| 9 | Gloucester Rugby | 22 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 456 | 507 | -51 | 42 | 47 | 1 | 9 | 44 | ||||
| 10 | Worcester Warriors | 22 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 322 | 448 | -126 | 23 | 46 | 0 | 6 | 36 | ||||
| 11 | London Wasps | 22 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 363 | 502 | -139 | 30 | 45 | 1 | 8 | 33 | ||||
| 12 | Newcastle Falcons | 22 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 351 | 529 | -178 | 26 | 56 | 0 | 4 | 32 | ||||
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| Green background (rows 1 to 4) are play-off places, and receive berths in the 2012–13 Heineken Cup. Blue background (rows 5 and 6) are clubs that do not make the play-offs, but will receive Heineken Cup berths. Red background (row 12) to be relegated if the champion of the RFU Championship meets the requirements for promotion. Updated 22 April 2012 — Current English Leagues
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Stadium[link]
The club plays its home games at Welford Road Stadium, the address of which is actually Aylestone Road. The ground was opened in 1892 and the first stands accommodated 1100 spectators. The Members' and Crumbie Stands were built after the First World War. The Alliance and Leicester Stand was opened at the Welford Road end in 1995. The total ground capacity is currently 24,000 (2009/10 season).
On 23 November 2004, the club announced that it had entered into a 50–50 joint venture with the city's main football club, Leicester City, to purchase City's current ground, Walkers Stadium. If the purchase had gone through, the Tigers would have surrendered their lease on Welford Road and moved into Walkers Stadium.[9] However, after several months of talks, the two clubs could not agree as to which side would have priority at Walkers Stadium, and they ended any ground share plans in July 2005.[10]
On 11 June 2007 the club announced plans that it was working with AFL, who were involved in redeveloping Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium for a redevelopment plan which will raise the capacity of their Welford Road stadium from 17,498 to 25,000 by 2011.
A new temporary stand at the clubhouse end increased the ground capacity to 17,498 from the 2007/08 season.
On 20 February 2008 Leicester Tigers received planning consent for the £60million redevelopment of their Welford Road home.The first phase of the development would include space for 10,000 supporters in a new North Stand (Granby Halls side), taking capacity up from 17,498 to 24,000. After full renovation it will have a capacity of above 30,000.[11]
In the summer of 2008 Work began on the construction of the new North Stand – called the "Caterpillar Stand" after the club's main sponsor. The work was completed for the first home game of the 2009/10 season against Newcastle Falcons. The Caterpillar Stand has room for 10,000 spectators along with a 1,000 seat hospitality suite. On the ground floor of the Caterpillar stand is the Final Whistle bar where no ticket is required for entry.[12]
At the end of the 2008/09 season three home games were played at the Walkers Stadium due to demolition of the old north stand.
Players[link]
Current squad[link]
Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under IRB eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-IRB nationality.
Current England Elite Squad[link]
Current England Saxons Squad[link]
International Capped Players[link]
Horacio Agulla- Marcos Ayerza
- Anthony Allen
- George Chuter
- Dan Cole
- Jordan Crane
- Tom Croft
- Louis Deacon
- Toby Flood
- Mathew Tait
- Manu Tuilagi
- Julian White
- Ben Youngs
- Geordan Murphy
- Jeremy Staunton
Martin Castrogiovanni
Scott Hamilton- Craig Newby
Alesana Tuilagi
Steve Mafi
Transfers 2012–13[link]
Players In[link]
- Daniel Bowden (from London Irish) [13]
- Miles Benjamin (from Worcester Warriors) [14]
- Adam Thompstone (from London Irish) [13]
Vereniki Goneva (from 
Tarbes) [15]
Players Out[link]
- Horacio Agulla [16]
- James Grindal (to Bristol) [17]
- Lee Robinson (to London Wasps, loan until end of 11/12 season) [18]
- George Skivington (to London Irish) [19]
- Billy Twelvetrees (to Gloucester) [20]
- Julian White - Retiring [21]
- Jeremy Staunton [14]
- Alesana Tuilagi (to
NTT Shining Arcs) [22]
Notable former internationals[link]
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- Lucas González Amorosino
Pat Howard- Rod Kafer
- Lote Tuqiri
- John Welborn
Dave Lougheed- Winston Stanley
- Garry Adey
- Neil Back (B&I Lions)
- Richard Cockerill
- Martin Corry (B&I Lions)
- Les Cusworth
- Paul Dodge (B&I Lions)
- Harry Ellis (B&I Lions)
- Darren Garforth
- Andy Goode
- Will Greenwood (B&I Lions)
- Dusty Hare (B&I Lions)
- Austin Healey (B&I Lions)
- Dan Hipkiss
- Martin Johnson (B&I Lions)
- Ben Kay (B&I Lions)
- Leon Lloyd
- Lewis Moody (B&I Lions)
- Alexander Obolensky
- Steve Redfern
- Dean Richards (B&I Lions)
- Marcus Rose
- Graham Rowntree (B&I Lions)
- Ollie Smith (B&I Lions)
- Tim Stimpson (B&I Lions)
- Rory Underwood (B&I Lions)
- Tony Underwood (B&I Lions)
- Tom Varndell
- Sam Vesty
- Dorian West (B&I Lions)
- Peter Wheeler (B&I Lions)
- Clive Woodward (B&I Lions)
- Nick Youngs
- Leo Cullen
- Shane Jennings
- Eric Miller (B&I Lions)
- Tony O'Reilly (B&I Lions)
- Ramiro Pez
- Seru Rabeni
- Waisale Serevi
- Julien Dupuy
- Benjamin Kayser
- Christophe Laussucq
- Frank Tournaire
- Josh Kronfeld
- Aaron Mauger
- Anitelia Tuilagi
- Freddie Tuilagi
- Henry Tuilagi
Jim Hamilton- Craig Joiner
Joel Stransky- Fritz van Heerden
- Ephraim Taukafa
Mefin Davies- Ken Jones
- Darren Morris (B&I Lions)
- Brian Smith
International captains[link]
- John Eric Greenwood (England 1920)
- Wavell Wakefield (England 1924)
- Doug Prentice (Lions 1930)
- Bernard Gadney (England 1934–36)
- Douglas Kendrew (England 1935)
- Peter Wheeler (England 1983–84)
- Paul Dodge (England 1985)
- Martin Johnson (England 1999–2003, Lions 1997, 2001)
- Neil Back (England)
- Dorian West (England)
- Martin Corry (England 2005–07, Lions 2005)
- Lewis Moody (England 2010)
- Leo Cullen (Ireland 2011)
Captains[link]
The following have been appointed club captain:
- B.V.D. Zweth
- A. E. Brice
- A.T. Porter
- L. Young
- J.G.S. Coleman
- W.A. Sheffield
- J. Parsons
- R.S. Snowden
- W.R. Porter
- A McKechnie
- W.H. Sturges
- A.E. Cooke
- E. Redman
- A.O. Jones
- W.J Foreman
- J.W. Garner
- S. Matthews
- R.F. Russell
- J.R Watson
- P.W. Lawrie
- W.J. Allen
- W.W. Wakefield
- H.L.V. Day
- F.D. Prentice
- H.D. Greenless
- D.J. Norman
- R.A. Buckingham
- B.C. Gadney
- R.J Barr
- J.T.W. Berry
- H.P. Jerwood
- A.C. Towell
- D. Goves
- W.K.T. Moore
- A.D. Bolesworth
- J.M. Jenkins
- J. Elders
- T. Bleasdale
- J.S. Swan
- C.G. Martin
- M.R. Wade
- M.J. Harrison
- D.J. Matthews
- G.G. Willars
- K.P. Andrews
- John Allen
- R.V. Grove
- Peter Wheeler
- R.S. Money
- Bob Rowell
- B.P. Hall
- Steve Johnson
- Ian "Dosser" Smith
- Les Cusworth
- Paul Dodge
- John Wells
- Dean Richards
- Martin Johnson
- Neil Back
- Josh Kronfeld
- Martin Corry
- Geordan Murphy (Current Captain)
Coaches[link]
- Richard Cockerill, Director of Rugby
- Matt O'Connor, Head coach
- Paul Burke, Kicking coach
- Ben Herring, First Team Assistant
Club honours[link]
- English Premierships: 1988, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2010
- Anglo-Welsh Cups: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1993, 1997, 2007, 2012
- Heineken Cup: 2001, 2002
- Middlesex 7s: 1995
References[link]
- ^ Record turnover as Tigers return to profit in 2009/10
- ^ Tigers Sign New Apparel Deal With Canterbury http://rugbyshirts.net/leicester-tigers-announce-apparel-deal-with-canterbury-5117.html
- ^ The Tigers Tale, Page 19, D.Hands, ISBN 0-9514862-5-X
- ^ "Premiership history". GuinnessPremiership.com. http://www.guinnesspremiership.com/199_208.php. Retrieved 18 May 2009. [dead link]
- ^ Howard returns home – BBC News, 28 December 2006
- ^ Loffreda named as new Tigers boss – BBC News, 25 April 2007
- ^ Sherrard, Gary (17 April 2009). "Leicester Tigers confirm Richard Cockerill appointment". Leicester Tigers. http://www.leicestertigers.com/news/13338.php. Retrieved 17 April 2009.
- ^ "Gloucester v Leicester – as it happened". BBC News. 12 May 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/6649519.stm. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ Tigers to move to Walkers Stadium?
- ^ Tigers call off ground share plan
- ^ Tigers stadium development
- ^ http://www.leicestertigers.com/stadium/caterpillar_stand.php
- ^ a b "Leicester Tigers set to sign London Irish pair". This is Leicestershire. 10 February 2012. http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Leicester-Tigers-set-sign-London-Irish-pair/story-15188380-detail/story.html.
- ^ a b "Leicester Tigers swoop for Worcester winger Miles Benjamin". This is Leicestershire. 4 January 2012. http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Leicester-Tigers-swoop-Worcester-winger-Miles/story-14323272-detail/story.html.
- ^ "Leicester Tigers complete deal for wing Vereniki Goneva". BBC Sport. 31 May 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/18279648.
- ^ "Horacio Agulla not offered new Leicester Tigers deal". BBC Sport. 24 January 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/16703457.
- ^ "Bristol Rugby sign Leicester Tigers' James Grindal". BBC Sport. 28 February 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/17190556.
- ^ "London Wasps sign wingers Tom Prydie and Lee Robinson". BBC Sport. 26 January 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/16748193.
- ^ "London Irish sign Leicester forward George Skivington". BBC Sport. 23 January 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/16679787.
- ^ "Billy Twelvetrees leaves Leicester for Gloucester". BBC Sport. 28 January 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/16669543.
- ^ "Julian White set to retire, says Leicester's Cockerill". BBC Sport. 23 March 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/17487215.
- ^ "Billy Twelvetrees leaves Leicester for Gloucester". rugby-transfers.blogspot.co.uk. 28 January 2012. http://rugby-transfers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/ntt-shining-arcs-to-be-next-team-of.html.
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Coordinates: 52°38′03″N 1°08′19″W / 52.63422°N 1.13852°W / 52.63422; -1.13852
| City of Leicester | |||
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| Motto: Semper Eadem | |||
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| Coordinates: 52°38′06″N 1°08′06″W / 52.635°N 1.135°W / 52.635; -1.135 | |||
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom | ||
| Constituent country | England | ||
| Region | East Midlands | ||
| Ceremonial county | Leicestershire | ||
| Admin HQ | New Walk Centre, Leicester City Centre | ||
| Founded | AD 50 as Ratae Corieltauvorum by the Romans |
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| City Status | restored 1919 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Type | Unitary authority, City | ||
| • Mayor | Sir Peter Soulsby | ||
| • Leadership | Elected mayor and cabinet | ||
| • Unitary authority | Leicester City Council | ||
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List of MPs
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| Area | |||
| • City & Unitary authority | 28.31 sq mi (73.32 km2) | ||
| Population (2010 est.) | |||
| • City & Unitary authority | 306,600 (Ranked 26th) | ||
| • Urban | 441,213 | ||
| • Metro | 772,400 (LUZ) | ||
| • Ethnicity (June 2009 estimates)[1] |
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| Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | British Summer Time (UTC+1) | ||
| Postcode | LE | ||
| Area code(s) | 0116 | ||
| Twin cities | |||
| • – Strasbourg |
France (since 1960) | ||
•  – Krefeld |
Germany (since 1969) | ||
•  – Masaya |
Nicaragua (since 1987) | ||
•  – Chongqing |
China (since 1993) | ||
•  – Rajkot |
India (since 1996) | ||
•  – Haskovo |
Bulgaria (since 2008) | ||
| Grid Ref. | SK584044 | ||
| ONS code | 00FN | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-LCE | ||
| NUTS 3 | UKF21 | ||
| Distance to London | 102.8 mi (165.4 km) | ||
| Demonym | Leicesterian | ||
| Website | http://www.leicester.gov.uk/ | ||
Leicester (/lɛstər/ LESS-tər pronunciation (help·info)) is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest. In 2010, the population of the Leicester unitary authority was estimated at 306,600, the second highest in the region, whilst 441,213 people lived in the wider Leicester Urban Area in 2006, making Leicester the tenth most populous settlement in the United Kingdom and the UK's fourteenth largest urban area. It is the largest city in the East Midlands yet has the second largest urban area in the region behind Nottingham Urban Area. Eurostat's Larger Urban Zone listed the population of the area at 772,400 people as of 2004.
Ancient Roman pavements and baths remain in Leicester from its early settlement as Ratae Corieltauvorum, a Roman military outpost in a region inhabited by the Celtic Corieltauvi tribe. Following the demise of Roman society the early medieval Ratae Corieltauvorum is shrouded in obscurity, but when the settlement was captured by the Danes it became one of five fortified towns important to the Danelaw. The name "Leicester" is thought to derive from the words castra of the "Ligore", meaning camp of the dwellers on the (river) Legro.[2] Leicester appears in the Domesday Book as "Ledecestre". Leicester continued to grow throughout the Early Modern period as a market town, although it was the Industrial Revolution that facilitated a process of rapid unplanned urbanisation in the area.
A newly constructed rail and canal network routed through the area stimulated industrial growth in the 19th century, and Leicester became a major economic centre with a variety of manufacturers engaged in engineering, shoemaking and hosiery production. The economic success of these industries, and businesses ancillary to them, resulted in significant urban expansion into the surrounding countryside. Leicester is one of the oldest cities in England, it was the centre of the bishopric from around 670, endowing it with city status. However, it lost city status in the 11th century during a time of struggle between the church and the aristocracy and did not regain it again until 1919. The boundaries of Leicester were extended several times in the 19th and 20th centuries; it became a county borough in 1889, and was re-granted city status in 1919.
Today, Leicester is located on the Midland Main Line and close to the M1 motorway. The city has a large ethnic minority population, particularly of South Asian origin, a product of immigration to the United Kingdom since the Second World War. To cater for the South Asian community, there are many Hindu, Sikh and Muslim places of worship and the Melton Road district serves as a focus, containing large numbers of Asian restaurants and other small businesses. Leicester is a centre for higher education, with both the University of Leicester and De Montfort University being based in the city.
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History[link]
Further information: History of Leicestershire
Roman[link]
Main article: Ratae Corieltauvorum
Leicester is one of the oldest cities in England, with a history going back at least 2,000 years. The first recorded name of the city is the Roman label Ratae Corieltauvorum. (The name of the this tribe was formerly thought to be "Coritani", so "Ratae Coritanorum" is used in older references to it.) Before being settled by Romans it was the capital of the Celtic Corieltauvi tribe ruling over roughly the same territory as what is now known as the East Midlands.
Ratae Corieltauvorum was founded around AD 50 as a military settlement along the Fosse Way, a Roman road between Exeter and Lincoln. After the military departure, Ratae Corieltauvorum grew into an important trading centre and one of the largest towns in Roman Britain. The remains of the baths of Roman Leicester can be seen at the Jewry Wall and other Roman artefacts are displayed in the Jewry Wall Museum adjacent to the site.
Anglo-Saxon and Viking[link]
Knowledge of the town in the 5th century is limited. Certainly there is some continuation of occupation of the town, though on a much reduced scale in the 5th and 6th centuries. The area was first settled by the Middle Angles and was subsequently included in the kingdom of Mercia. Leicester was chosen as the centre of a bishopric (and therefore a city) in 679/80 which survived until the 9th century, when Leicester was captured by the Danes (Vikings) and became one of the five boroughs (fortified towns) of Danelaw, although this position was short lived. The Saxon Bishop of Leicester fled to Dorchester-on-Thames and Leicester was not to become a bishopric again until the 20th century.
It is believed the name "Leicester" is derived from the words castra (camp) of the Ligore, meaning dwellers on the 'River Legro' (an early name for the River Soar). In the early 10th century it was recorded as Ligeraceaster = "the town of the Ligor people". The Domesday Book later recorded it as Ledecestre.
Medieval[link]
Leicester had become a town of considerable importance by Medieval times[citation needed]. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book as 'civitas' (city), but Leicester lost its city status in the 11th century owing to power struggles between the Church and the aristocracy. It was eventually re-made a city in 1919, and the Church of St Martin became Leicester Cathedral in 1927. The tomb of King Richard III is located in the central nave of the cathedral although he is not actually buried there. He was originally buried in the Greyfriars Church in Leicester, but there is a legend that his corpse was exhumed under orders from Henry VII and cast into the River Soar, although there is no evidence for this and some historians believe that his tomb and bones were destroyed with the dissolution of the church.
The town is mentioned in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written around 1136. According to Monmouth's pseudohistorical work[3][4] a mythical king of the Britons King Leir founded the city of Kaerleir ('Leir's chester' – i.e. fortified town). Today the name of the city in the Welsh language is Caerlŷr. Leir was supposedly buried by Queen Cordelia in a chamber beneath the River Soar near the city dedicated to the Roman god Janus, and every year people celebrated his feast-day near Leir's tomb.[5] William Shakespeare's King Lear is loosely based on this story and there is a statue of Lear in Watermead Country Park.
Tudor[link]
On 4 November 1530, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was arrested on charges of treason and taken from York Place. On his way south to face dubious justice at the Tower of London, he fell ill. The group escorting him was concerned enough to stop at Leicester. There, Wolsey's condition quickly worsened and he died on 29 November 1530 and was buried at Leicester Abbey, now Abbey Park.
Lady Jane Grey, (1536/7 – 12 February 1554), a great-granddaughter of Henry VII, was born at Bradgate Park near Leicester, and reigned as uncrowned Queen Regnant of England for nine days in July 1553, and for that reason is called "The Nine Days Queen".[6]
Queen Elizabeth I's personal favoured courtier, Robert Dudley, who the Queen had one time thought of marrying, and who has been named and known as her possible lover for centuries, was given the Earldom of Leicester.
Civil War[link]
Leicester was a Parliamentarian stronghold during the English Civil War. In 1645, Prince Rupert decided to attack the city to draw the New Model Army away from the Royalist headquarters of Oxford. Royalist guns were set up on Raw Dykes and after an unsatisfactory response to a demand for surrender, the Newarke was stormed and the city was sacked on 30 May. Although hundreds of people were killed by Rupert's cavalry, reports of the severity of the sacking were exaggerated by the Parliamentary press in London.[7]
18th and 19th centuries[link]
The construction of the Grand Union Canal in the 1790s linked Leicester to London and Birmingham and by 1832 the railway had arrived in Leicester; the new Leicester and Swannington Railway providing a supply of coal to the town from nearby collieries. By 1840 the Midland Counties Railway had linked Leicester to the national railway network and by the 1860s, Leicester had gained a direct rail link to London (St Pancras) with the completion of the Midland Main Line.
These developments in transport encouraged and accompanied a process of industrialisation which intensified throughout the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). Factories began to appear, particularly along the canal and the River Soar. Between 1861 and 1901 Leicester's population increased from 68,000 to 212,000 and the proportion employed in trade, commerce, building and the city's new factories and workshops rose steadily. Hosiery, textiles and footwear became major industrial employers joined, in the latter part of the century, by engineering.
During this period a number of what were to become substantial Engineering business were established these included Taylor & Hubbard Ltd, Kent Street, Leicester (Crane Makers, Founders), William Gimson and Company, Vulcan Road (Steam Boilers, Founders), Richards & Co, Martin Street(Founders, Structural Steel workers).
Years of consistent economic growth meant that, for many, living standards increased. The second half of the 19th century also witnessed the creation of many public institutions that we now take for granted such as the town council, the Royal Infirmary and the Leicester Constabulary and the acceptance that municipal organisations had a responsibility for water supply, drainage and sanitation.
The borough expanded throughout the 19th century, most notably in 1892 annexing Belgrave, Aylestone, North Evington, Knighton and the rapidly expanding residential suburb of Stoneygate, home to many of the city's wealthier families and some of its growing middle class. Leicester became a county borough in 1889, but, as with all county boroughs, was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 in 1974, becoming an ordinary district of Leicestershire. It regained its unitary status in 1997.
The early 20th century[link]
Leicester was formally recognised as a city in 1919 and a cathedral city on the consecration of St Martin's in 1927. It obtained its current boundaries in 1935, with the annexation of the remainder of Evington, Humberstone, Beaumont Leys and part of Braunstone. In 1900 an important new transport link, the Great Central Railway provided a new goods and passenger route to London.
By the time of Queen Victoria's death in 1901 the rapid population growth of the previous decades had already began to slow and the Great War of 1914–18 and its aftermath had a marked social and economic impact. Leicester's diversified economic base and lack of dependence on primary industries meant that it was much better placed than many other cities to weather the severe economic challenges of the 1920s and 1930s. The Bureau of Statistics of the newly formed League of Nations identified Leicester in 1936 as the second richest city in Europe[citation needed] and it became an attractive destination for refugees fleeing persecution and political turmoil in continental Europe. These years witnessed the growth in the city of trade unionism and particularly the co-operative movement. The Co-op became an important employer and landowner and when Leicester played host to the Jarrow March on its way to London in 1936, the Co-op provided the marchers with a change of boots. In 1938 Leicester was given the first A.D.C.C (Air Defence Cadet Corp) or known as today The Air Training Corp. The Squadron Number is 1F.
Post World War II[link]
The years after World War II, particularly from the 1960s onwards, brought many social and economic challenges. There was a steady and irreversible decline in Leicester's traditional manufacturing industries and in the city centre working factories and light industrial premises have now been almost entirely displaced by new businesses. The 1960s and 1970s saw the movement of passengers and freight by rail and barge eclipsed by the growth of road transport. The Great Central Railway and the Leicester and Swannington Railway both closed and the northward extension of the M1 motorway linked Leicester into a growing motorway network. By the 1990s Leicester's central position and its good road transport links to the rest of the country had given it a new strategic importance as a distribution centre and the south western boundaries of the city have attracted many new businesses in both service and manufacturing sectors.
Mass housebuilding continued across Leicester for some 30 years after World War II ended in 1945. Existing housing estates such as Braunstone were expanded, while several completely new estates – of both private and council tenure – were built.[citation needed] The last major development of this era was Beaumont Leys in the north of the city, which was developed in the 1970s as a mix of private and council housing.[citation needed] With the loss of much of the city's industry during the 1970s and 1980s, some of the old industrial jobs were replaced by new jobs in the service sector, particularly in retail. The opening of the Haymarket Shopping Centre in 1971 was followed by a number of new shopping centres in the city, including St Martin's Shopping Centre in 1984 and the Shire Shopping Centre in 1992.[8] The Shires was subsequently expanded in September 2008 and rebranded as Highcross.
Since the war Leicester has experienced large scale immigration from across the world. Immigrant groups today make up around 40% of Leicester's population, making Leicester one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the United Kingdom. Many Polish servicemen were prevented from returning to their homeland after the war by the communist regime, and they established a small community in Leicester. Economic migrants from the Irish Republic continued to arrive throughout the post war period. Immigrants from the Indian sub-continent began to arrive in the 1960s, their numbers boosted by Asians arriving from Kenya and Uganda in the early 1970s.[9][10]
In the 1990s, apparently drawn by the city's free and easy atmosphere and by the number of mosques, a group of Dutch citizens of Somali origin settled in the city. Since the 2004 enlargement of the European Union a significant number of East European migrants have settled in the city. While some wards in the northeast of the city are more than 70% Asian, wards in the west and south are all over 70% white. The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) had estimated that by 2011 Leicester would have approximately a 50% ethnic minority population, making it the first city in Britain not to have a white British majority.[11]
This prediction was based on the growth of the ethnic minority populations between 1991 (Census 1991 28% ethnic minority) and 2001 (Census 2001 – 36% ethnic minority). However Professor Ludi Simpson at the University of Manchester School of Social Sciences said in September 2007 that the CRE had "made unsubstantiated claims and ignored government statistics" and that Leicester's immigrant and minority communities disperse to other places.[12][13] The Leicester Multicultural Advisory Group is a forum, set up in 2001 by the editor of the Leicester Mercury, to coordinate community relations with members representing the council, police, schools, community and faith groups, and the media.
Geography[link]
Wards of Leicester[link]
Leicester is divided into several administrative wards, that correspond to many historical suburbs, villages and districts in the unitary authority area:
| Ward | Suburbs, villages and districts |
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| Abbey | Abbey Ward, Frog Island, Mowmacre Hill, Stocking Farm |
| Aylestone | Aylestone, Aylestone Park, Saffron |
| Beaumont Leys | Beaumont Leys, Heathley Park |
| Belgrave | Belgrave |
| Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields | Braunstone, Rowley Fields |
| Castle | City Centre, Blackfriars, Clarendon Park, Southfields |
| Charnwood | Northfields |
| Coleman | Crown Hills, North Evington |
| Evington | Evington, Goodwood, Rowlatts Hill |
| Eyres Monsell | Eyres Monsell, Saffron |
| Fosse | Newfoundpool, West End, Woodgate |
| Freemen | Knighton Fields, Saffron |
| Humberstone & Hamilton | Hamilton, Humberstone, Humberstone Garden Suburb, Netherhall |
| Knighton | Stoneygate, Knighton, South Knighton, West Knighton |
| Latimer | St. Mark's |
| New Parks | New Parks |
| Rushey Mead | Rushey Mead |
| Spinney Hills | Spinney Hills, St. Matthew's, St. Peter's |
| Stoneygate | Highfields, Horston Hill, Evington Valley |
| Thurncourt | Thurnby Lodge |
| Westcotes | Bede Island |
| Western Park | Western Park, Dane Hills |
The Office for National Statistics has defined a Leicester Urban Area, which consists of the conurbation of Leicester, although it has no administrative status. The area contains the unitary authority area and several towns, villages and suburbs outside the city's administrative boundaries.
Climate[link]
Leicester experiences a maritime climate type with mild winters and cool summers, rain spread throughout the year, and low sunshine levels. The nearest official Weather Station was Newtown Linford, about 5 miles (8.0 km) North West of Leicester city centre and just outside the edge of the urban area. However, observations stopped in 2003. The current nearest Weather Station is Market Bosworth, about 10 miles (16 km) west of the city centre.
The highest temperature recorded at Newtown Linford was 34.5c(94.1f)[14] during August 1990, although a temperature of 35.1 °C (95.2 °F) was achieved at Leicester University during August 2003.[15] More typically the highest temperature would reach 28.7c(83.7f)[16] – the average annual maximum. 11.3 days[17] of the year should attain a temperature of 25.1c(77.2f) or above.
The lowest temperature recorded at Newtown Linford was −16.1c(3.0f)[18] during January 1963. Typically, 54.9 air frosts will be recorded during the course of the year.
Rainfall averages 684.4mm[19] per year, with 1mm or more falling on 120.8 days.[20] All averages refer to the period 1971–2000.
| Climate data for Newtown Linford, elevation 119m, 1971–2000, extremes 1960–2003 | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 13.6 (56.5) |
17.9 (64.2) |
21.7 (71.1) |
23.9 (75.0) |
26.5 (79.7) |
31.5 (88.7) |
32.3 (90.1) |
34.5 (94.1) |
27.7 (81.9) |
23.3 (73.9) |
16.2 (61.2) |
14.6 (58.3) |
34.5 (94.1) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 6.3 (43.3) |
6.9 (44.4) |
9.7 (49.5) |
12.2 (54.0) |
16.0 (60.8) |
18.6 (65.5) |
21.4 (70.5) |
21.1 (70.0) |
17.7 (63.9) |
13.5 (56.3) |
9.1 (48.4) |
7.1 (44.8) |
13.3 (55.9) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 0.5 (32.9) |
0.5 (32.9) |
2.1 (35.8) |
3.3 (37.9) |
6.0 (42.8) |
8.7 (47.7) |
10.8 (51.4) |
10.7 (51.3) |
8.8 (47.8) |
6.0 (42.8) |
2.8 (37.0) |
1.3 (34.3) |
7.1 (44.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −16.1 (3.0) |
−11.7 (10.9) |
−11.1 (12.0) |
−6.6 (20.1) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
−0.9 (30.4) |
2.8 (37.0) |
2.8 (37.0) |
0.0 (32.0) |
−6.2 (20.8) |
−7.4 (18.7) |
−14.4 (6.1) |
−16.1 (3.0) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 61.65 (2.4272) |
48.91 (1.9256) |
51.86 (2.0417) |
43.86 (1.7268) |
50.83 (2.0012) |
63.07 (2.4831) |
46.08 (1.8142) |
59.25 (2.3327) |
61.50 (2.4213) |
60.58 (2.385) |
60.34 (2.3756) |
68.82 (2.7094) |
684.37 (26.9437) |
| Source: KNMI[21] | |||||||||||||
Government[link]
On 1 April 1997, Leicester City Council became a unitary authority, local government up until then having been a two-tier system with the city and county councils being responsible for different aspects of local government services (a system which is still in place in the rest of Leicestershire). Leicestershire County Council retained its headquarters at County Hall in Glenfield, just outside the city boundary but within the urban area. The administrative offices of Leicester City Council are in the centre of the city at the New Walk Centre and other office buildings near Welford Place. Some services (particularly the police and the ambulance service) still cover the whole of the city and county, but for the most part the two councils are independent.
After a long period of Labour administration (since 1979), the city council from May 2003 was run by a Liberal Democrat/Conservative coalition under Roger Blackmore, which collapsed in November 2004. The minority Labour group ran the city until May 2005, under Ross Willmott, when the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives formed a new coalition, again under the leadership of Roger Blackmore.
In the local government elections of 3 May 2007, Leicester’s Labour Party once again took control of the council in what can be described as a landslide victory. Gaining 18 new councillors, Labour polled on the day 38 councillors, creating a governing majority of +20. Significantly however, the Green Party gained its first councillors in the Castle Ward, after losing on the drawing of lots in 2003, though one of these subsequently resigned and the seat was lost to Labour in a by-election on 10 September 2009. The Conservative Party saw a decrease in their representation, whilst the Liberal Democrat Party was the major loser, dropping from 25 councillors in 2003 to only 6 in 2007.
In the local government elections of 5 May 2011, Labour won 52 of the city's 54 seats, with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats winning one seat each.[22]
Leicester is divided into three Parliamentary constituencies, all controlled by the Labour Party : Leicester East, represented by Keith Vaz, Leicester South, represented by Jon Ashworth, and Leicester West represented by Liz Kendall. In April 2011 the then Leicester South MP Sir Peter Soulsby left the House of Commons to seek election as Mayor of Leicester.
On 5 May 2011, Peter Soulsby became the first directly elected Mayor of Leicester.
Coat of arms[link]
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Coat of arms, Leicester
The Corporation of Leicester's coat of arms was first granted to the city at the Heraldic Visitation of 1619, and is based on the arms of the first Earl of Leicester, Robert Beaumont. The field is a white cinquefoil on a red background, and this emblem is used by the city council.
After Leicester became a city again in 1919, the city council applied to add to the arms, permission for which was granted in 1929, when the supporting lions, from the Lancastrian Earls of Leicester, were added.
The motto "Semper Eadem" was the motto of Queen Elizabeth I, who granted a royal charter to the city. It means "always the same" but with positive overtones meaning unchanging, reliable or dependable. The crest on top of the arms is a white or silver legless wyvern with red and white wounds showing, on a wreath of red and white. The legless wyvern distinguishes it as a Leicester wyvern as opposed to other wyverns. The supporting lions are wearing coronets in the form of collars, with the white cinquefoil hanging from them.
Demography[link]
| Leicester compared[23] | |||
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| UK Census 2001 | Leicester | East Midlands | England |
| Total population | 292,600 | 4,172,174 | 49,138,831 |
| Foreign born | 23.0% | 6.0% | 9.2% |
| White (2001) | 63.9% | 93.5% | 90.9% |
| White (2006) | 62.0% | 91.4% | 88.7% |
| South Asian (2001) | 29.9% | 4.0% | 4.6% |
| South Asian (2006) | 29.4% | 4.8% | 5.5% |
| Black (2001) | 3.1% | 0.9% | 2.3% |
| Black (2006) | 4.6% | 1.4% | 2.8% |
| Mixed (2001) | 2.3% | 1.0% | 1.3% |
| Mixed (2006) | 2.6% | 1.4% | 1.6% |
| East Asian and Other (2001) | 0.8% | 0.5% | 0.9% |
| East Asian and Other (2006) | 1.5% | 1.0% | 1.4% |
| Christian | 44.7% | 72.0% | 71.7% |
| No religion | 17.4% | 15.2% | 14.6% |
| Hindu | 14.7% | 1.6% | 1.1% |
| Muslim | 11.0% | 1.7% | 3.1% |
The United Kingdom Census 2001 showed a total resident population for Leicester of 279,921, a 0.5% decrease from the 1991 census.[24] Approximately 62,000 were aged under 16, 199,000 were aged 16–74, and 19,000 aged 75 and over.[24] 76.9% of Leicester's population claim they have been born in the UK, according to the 2001 UK Census. Mid-year estimates for 2006 indicate that the population of the City of Leicester stood at 289,700 making Leicester the most populous city in East Midlands.[25]
The population density is 3,814 /km2 (9,880 /sq mi)[26] and for every 100 females, there were 92.9 males. Of those aged 16–74 in Leicester, 38.5% had no academic qualifications, significantly higher than 28.9% in all of England.[27] 23.0% of Leicester’s residents were born outside of the United Kingdom, higher than the English average of 9.2%.[28]
In terms of districts by ethnic diversity, the City of Leicester is ranked 11th in England. According to 2006 estimates, 58.3% of residents are white British (just under 170,000 people), 3.7% other white (around 10,000 people), 29.4% Asian or Asian British (some 84,000 people), 4.6% black or black British (some 9,000 people), 2.6% mixed race (approximately 6,000 individuals) and 1.5% Chinese or other ethnic group (over 2,000 people).[29] Amongst some of Leicester's emerging ethnic groups are the Poles who now number an estimates 30,000 in the city.[30]
Christianity is the predominant faith in Leicester. There are also approximately 41,000 Hindus, 31,000 Muslims, and 12,000 Sikhs.[31] There are three active synagogues in the city, one Progressive, one Orthodox and one Messianic.
Languages[link]
A demographic profile of Leicester published by the city council in 2008 noted:
Alongside English there are around 70 languages and/or dialects spoken in the city. In addition to English, eight languages are commonly spoken: Gujarati is the preferred language of 16% of the city's residents, Punjabi 3%, Somali 4% and Urdu 2%. Other smaller language groups include Hindi, Bengali and Polish. ... With continuing migration into the city, new languages and or dialects from Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe are also being spoken in the city. In primary schools in Leicester, English is not the 'preferred' language of 45% of pupils and the proportion of children whose first language is known, or believed to be, other than English, is significantly higher than other cities within the region, or within the UK.[32]
Population change[link]
| Population growth in Leicester since 1901 | |||||||||
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| Year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1939 | 1951 | 1961 | 1971 | 2001 |
| Population | 211,579 | 227,222 | 234,143 | 239,169 | 261,339 | 285,181 | 273,470 | 284,208 | 279,921 |
| Source: A Vision of Britain through Time | |||||||||
Economy[link]
Leicester has the largest economy in the East Midlands. A recent study by emda/Experian estimated the GVA to be £15.3 billion.[33] Companies that have their head office based in the area include Next, Jessops, Shoe Zone, Goldsmiths and the British Gas Business. Caterpillar, Wal-Mart, and DHL all have sites in Leicester.[34]
Engineering[link]
Engineering is an important part of the economy of Leicester. Companies include Jones & Shipman (machine tools and control systems), Richards Engineering (foundry equipment), Transmon Engineering (materials handling equipment) and Trelleborg (suspension components for rail, marine, and industrial applications). Local commitment to nurturing the upcoming cadre of British engineers includes apprenticeship schemes with local companies, and academic-industrial connections with the engineering departments at Leicester University, De Montfort University, and Loughborough University. Leicester was also home to the famous Gents' of Leicester clock manufacturers.
Shopping[link]
In 2008 Leicester was positioned thirteenth in the retail shopping league of England (CACI Retail Footprint 2008).
There are two main shopping centres in Leicester – the Haymarket Shopping Centre and Highcross Leicester. The Haymarket Shopping Centre was opened on the site in 1974, and was the first to be built in the City, with parking for up to 500 cars on several levels, two levels of shopping with bus station, and was also the site of the former Haymarket Theatre. Highcross Leicester opened in 2008 after work to redevelop "The Shires Centre" was completed at a cost of £350 million (creating 120 stores, 15 restaurants, a cinema, 110,000 m2 of shopping space). Smaller shopping centres include St Martin's Square. The Leicester Lanes area has numerous designer and specialist shops. Leicester Market is the largest outdoor covered market in Europe selling a wide variety of goods. The Golden Mile is the name given to a stretch of Belgrave Road renowned for its authentic Indian restaurants, sari shops, and jewellers, The Diwali celebrations in Leicester are focused on this area and are the largest outside India[35]
Leicester has a number of department stores including Fenwick, House of Fraser, John Lewis, and Debenhams.
Food and drink[link]
Henry Walker was a successful pork butcher who moved from Mansfield to Leicester in the 1880s to take over an established business in High Street. The first Walker's production line was in the empty upper storey of Walker's Oxford Street factory in Leicester. In the early days the potatoes were sliced up by hand and cooked in an ordinary fish and chip fryer. In 1971 the Walker's crisps business was sold to Standard Brands, an American firm, who sold on the company to Frito-Lay. Walker's crisps currently makes 10 million bags of crisps per day at two factories in Beaumont Leys, and is the UK's largest grocery brand.[36] The Beaumont Leys manufacturing plant is the largest crisp factory in the world.[37]
Meanwhile the sausage and pie business was bought out by Samworth Brothers in 1986. Production outgrew the Cobden Street site and pork pies are now manufactured at a meat processing factory and bakery in Beaumont Leys, coincidentally situated near the separately owned crisp factories. Sold under the Walker's name and under UK retailers own brands such as Tesco's Finest, over three million hot and cold pies are made each week.[38] Henry Walker's butcher shop at 4–6 Cheapside is still in business, selling Walker's sausages and pork pies, and is currently trading under the ownership of Scottish company Fife Fine Foods which bought up the Walker's butchers stores chain from Dewhursts in 2006.
Leicester Market is the largest outdoor covered marketplace in Europe[citation needed] and selling fruit, vegetables, fresh fish and meat. Every year during the summer the Leicester City Council hold cultural festivals here. In 2009 the Leicester Mela was held in the market area. In 2011 a new area called "Market Corner" was opened with various different food and drink on offer on Fridays and Saturdays. The market was given royal consent in 1229 by Henry III. One famous stallholder family is the Lineker's, who have operated a fruit and vegetable store since the late 1960s. Other markets in Leicester include Beaumont Leys Market. There are other markets, including the farmer's market and the continental markets usually held on Humberstone Gate or Gallowtree Gate.
Financial and business services[link]
Financial and business service companies with operations in Leicestershire include Santander (previously Alliance & Leicester), Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays Bank, State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Bank of Baroda and HSBC. All of the major accounting firms have offices in Leicester. One of Aviva's seven UK administrative hubs is based in Leicester.
Statistics[link]
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Leicester at current basic prices published (pp. 240–253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.
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Births, marriages and deaths[link]
The staff at the Leicester office registers 9,500 births and 5,700 deaths annually. In addition around 1,000 marriage ceremonies take place within the building every year together with an increasing number of civil partnership registrations. As part of the legal preliminaries to their wedding the citizens of the city of Leicester who wish to marry anywhere other than the Church of England must give a legal notice of their intention to marry. In the course of a year more than 2,000 notices are entered in the records of this office.
The original records of all births, marriages and deaths which have taken place in Leicester since 1837 are kept at the register office. Every year approximately 12,000 certified copies are issued from these historic records.
Business awards[link]
The Leicestershire Business Awards has categories including Investing in Leicestershire, Contribution to the Community, and Entrepreneur of the Year.
Recent Leicestershire winners of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise are Guidance Ltd, listed on the Lord Lieutenant's website. Guidance Monitoring Limited (GML) specialises in the design and manufacture of sophisticated electronic tagging/tracking systems for asset protection and personnel monitoring including for security and criminal justice applications.[3]
Landmarks[link]
There are ten Scheduled Monuments in Leicester and thirteen Grade I listed buildings: some sites, such as Leicester Castle and the Jewry Wall, appear on both lists.
20th century architecture: Leicester University Engineering Building (James Stirling & James Gowan : Grd II Listed), Kingstone Department Store, Belgrave Gate (Raymond McGrath : Grd II Listed)
Older architecture:
Tourist: Discover Leicester Tour is an open top tour bus linking many of the Leicestershire tourist sites in and around the city. See [4].
Parks: Abbey Park, Botanic Gardens, Castle Gardens, Gorse Hill City Farm, Grand Union Canal, Knighton Park, Nelson Mandela Park, River Soar, Victoria Park, Watermead Country Park.
Industry: Abbey Pumping Station, National Space Centre, Great Central Railway.
Places of worship: Shree Jalaram Prarthana Mandal (Hindu temple),[43] the Stake Centre of the LDS Church's Leicester England Stake,[citation needed] Jain Centre,[44] Leicester Cathedral, Leicester Central Mosque,[45] Masjid Umar[46] (Mosque),[47] Guru Nanak Gurdwara (Sikh), Neve Shalom Synagogue (Progressive Jewish).
Historic buildings: Town Hall, Guildhall, Belgrave Hall, Jewry Wall, Secular Hall, Abbey, Castle, St Mary de Castro, The City Rooms, Newarke Magazine Gateway.
Shopping: Haymarket Shopping Centre, Highcross, Market, Golden Mile, Beaumont Shopping Centre, Fosse Shopping Park, St Martin's Square, Silver Arcade.
Sport: King Power Stadium – Leicester City FC, Welford Road – Leicester Tigers, Grace Road – Leicestershire County Cricket Club, John Sanford Sports Centre – Leicester Riders, Saffron Lane Sports Centre – Leicester Coritanian Athletics Club, City Cricket Academy.
Transport[link]
Railway[link]
The rail network is of growing importance in Leicester, and with the start of Eurostar international services from London St Pancras International in November 2007 giving Leicester railway station almost direct links to the continent, this growth is expected to continue.
East Midlands Trains are the InterCity operator running 'fast' and 'semi-fast' services to and from London to northern England, and provide local services throughout the East Midlands, regional services to the West Midlands and East Anglia are provided by CrossCountry.
Rail routes run north–south through Leicester along the route known as the Midland Main Line, going south to Bedford, Luton and London; and north to Lincoln, Sheffield, Leeds and York. Junctions north and south of the station link the east–west cross country route, going east to Cambridge, Stansted Airport and Norwich; and west to Nuneaton and Birmingham. Leicester is 99 miles (159 km) from London on the Midland Main Line, the fastest trains taking 1 hour and 07 minutes. Journeys to Sheffield take around 1 hour, Leeds and York are approximately a 2 hour journey. Birmingham and Peterborough are around 1 hour away.
Passengers using the railway station can include a PlusBus ticket with their train ticket which gives unlimited bus travel in a designated area.
Network Rail has plans afoot to re-develop the station incorporating the city council's plans for the surrounding area.[48]
Great Central Railway[link]
Main article: Great Central Railway
Leicester was also on a competing line from London to the North, built by the Great Central Railway in the late 1890s. Served by Leicester Central railway station, the Great Central Main Line closed as a through route in the late 1960s. A preserved section remains, from the newly opened Leicester North railway station (the original route through Leicester has now been rebuilt on), to Loughborough is now a heritage steam railway.
Motorways[link]
Leicester is close to the heart of the M1 motorway at Junction 21, this section considered to be the busiest part in the country[citation needed]. The M69 motorway also starts near Leicester, and runs to the M6 Motorway and is contiguous with Coventry's eastern bypass.
Airport[link]
East Midlands Airport is near Castle Donington which is in North West Leicestershire. Served by low-cost international airlines like Ryanair & Bmibaby and serves charter holidays like Thomson Holidays. This makes Leicester easily accessible from other parts of the world providing regular services to many principal European destinations. This includes Amsterdam, Berlin & Paris. Also there are internal flights to Belfast, Edinburgh & Glasgow and limited services to transcontinental destinations such as Barbados, Mexico & Orlando.
Also Birmingham Airport is only about a 45 or 50 minute drive from Leicester, and London Luton Airport can be reached in an hour or just over. Luton serves similar destinations to East Midlands though Luton services are more regular. Birmingham airport generally flies to places like Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, Munich & Paris with airlines like Air France, KLM & Lufthansa.
Leicester's other local airport is Leicester Airport at Stoughton, Leicestershire.
Buses[link]
Leicester has two main bus stations St Margaret's Bus Station and Haymarket Bus Station.
There are three permanent Park and ride sites located at Meynells Gorse (Leicester Forest East), Birstall and Enderby buses operate every 15 mins from all sites. The park and ride services are branded as quicksilver shuttle and are contracted to Roberts from the City Council and County Council, buses use a purpose built terminal near St. Nicholas Circle.
The main bus operators for Leicester are Arriva Midlands, Centrebus, Kinchbus, First Leicester, Coachmaster and Roberts.
The Skylink Leicester bus service to East Midlands Airport and Derby operated by Kinchbus operates 24/7 every 30 mins daytime and hourly between 7pm and 5am.
National Cycle Network[link]
National Cycle Network Route 6 passes through Leicestershire along with other secondary routes. The Leicester Bike Park is also located in the city centre. The city is also home to Cyclemagic, a community cycling organisation with probably the widest range of bikes and pedal powered machines in the world.
Education[link]
Schools[link]
Main article: List of schools in Leicester
Leicester is home to a number of comprehensive schools and independent schools. Leicester Grammar School, a HMC member school, was founded in the 1980s after the city's loss of its state-funded grammar schools. There are three sixth form colleges, all of which were previously grammar schools.
The Leicester City Local Education Authority initially had a troubled history when formed in 1997 as part of the local government reorganisation – a 1999 Ofsted inspection found "few strengths and many weaknesses", although there has been considerable improvement since then. While many state schools provide a good standard of education, there have been problems with one or two of the large community colleges, in particular New College on Glenfield Road. However, recent changes of leadership at New College have seen a turnaround in the school's prospects.
Recent plans to improve the city's education system included the opening of The Samworth Enterprise Academy, an academy whose catchment area draws in children from the Saffron and Eyres Monsell estates, co-sponsored by the Church of England and David Samworth, chairman of Samworth Brothers. State school status has also been granted to the Madani High School, a Leicester Islamic academy. The city's special schools are currently undergoing reorganisation.
Under the "Building Schools for the Future" project, Leicester City Council has contracted with developers Miller Consortium for £315 million to rebuild Beaumont Leys School, Judgemeadow Community College in Evington, and Soar Valley College in Rushey Mead, and to refurbish Fullhurst Community College in Braunstone.[49]
Leicester City Council underwent a major reorganisation of children's services in 2006, creating a new Children & Young People's Services department.
Leicester was one of the last places in the UK where milk was supplied to primary schools in third pint glass bottles. In 2007 the supplier changed to plastic bottles.
Tertiary[link]
Leicester is home to two universities, the University of Leicester, which attained its Royal Charter in 1957 and is one of Britain's leading universities ranked 12th by the 2009 Complete University Guide, and De Montfort University, which opened in 1969 as Leicester Polytechnic and achieved university status in 1992.
It is also home to the National Space Centre located off Abbey Lane, due in part to the University of Leicester being one of the few universities in the UK to specialise in space sciences.
Culture[link]
The city hosts an annual Pride Parade (Leicester Pride), a Caribbean Carnival (the largest in the UK outside London), the largest Diwali celebrations outside of India and the largest comedy festival in the UK Leicester Comedy Festival. One of the best known places in the city is Melton Road, near the city centre, which contains many diverse retail stores and restaurants for both locals and tourists. From clothing to fine cuisines,specialist bridal/groom makeup and home appliances, this road promotes and holds many authentic cultures globally. Melton Road is regarded as the pin point of Leicester as a multifaith city. For many residents of Leicester, Melton Road is place with strong links to their roots and origins. From an ethnic point of view, this is just one of the many sites within the city that enables every person to feel a sense of homeliness and strong pride of cutlture.
The Leicester International Short Film Festival [5] is an annual event; it began life with humble beginnings in 1996 under the banner title of "Seconds Out". It has become one of the most important short film festivals in the U.K. It usually runs in early November, with venues including the Phoenix Arts Centre.
Arts venues in the city include:
- Curve: New purpose-designed performing arts centre, designed by Rafael Vinoly, opened in Autumn 2008,[50] replaced the Haymarket Theatre
- The De Montfort Hall
- The Y Theatre
- The Little Theatre
- The City Gallery, one of the region's leading contemporary art galleries
- The Peepul Centre, Designed by Andrzej Blonski Architects, the £15 million building was opened in 2005 and houses an auditorium, restaurant, cyber café, gym and dance studio for the local people, as well as being used for conferences and events. The centre has even been host to former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other senior Labour Party figures for hustings during the deputy leadership contest.
- Phoenix Square, which replaced the Phoenix Arts Centre in 2009.
- Fabrika The Independent Arts Centre, 68-70 Humberstone Gate. An Independent Art centre designed to help everyone in the community in a number of different ways.
Museums[link]
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Newarke Houses Museum (Grade II*)
Music[link]
While Leicester has often been neglected as a centre for popular music, with the new O2 Academy that has recently been built in the city more established acts have been booked to play. It has had a vibrant history that has thrown up a large number of notable, as well as forgettable, artists. Current venues for music include: De Montfort Hall, which has a standing capacity of 1602 and seating capacity of 2000. One of Leicester's main live music venues, The Charlotte, closed in January 2009. It briefly reopened in October 2009 before being closed permanently on 14 March 2010.
1960s[link]
Leicester's main small venue for pop and rock was the Il Rondo on Silver Street. The roll call of bands who played at the Il Rondo runs like a who's Who of early–mid sixties pop and rock. The Yardbirds and The Animals played there before passing into rock history along with less well remembered groups like the Graham Bond Organisation. It also played host to many visiting American blues musicians including Howlin' Wolf, Freddie King, Lowell Fulson, Otis Spann and John Lee Hooker. The Beatles also came to De Montfort Hall.
Colin Hyde (East Midlands Oral History Archive) carried out a range of interviews about growing up in Leicester in the 1950s and 1960s and began to map where all of the venues of the day were.[51] He identified a number of clubs, pubs, and coffee bars like the Chameleon, run by Pete Joseph, the El Casa, or the El Paso – cafes which stayed open after the pubs closed. Among others, people also remembered the Blue Beat club on Conduit Street, run by Alex Barrows who later started the House of Happiness on Campbell Street. Night clubs such as the Burlesque or the Nite Owl became more popular as the 1960s progressed, and they opened up the opportunity to dance all night.
A local beat band called The Foresights were signed to EMI. They were notable for all members wearing glasses.
Also emerging during this period was the band Family, fronted by Leicester man Roger Chapman.
1970s[link]
The seventies saw the emergence of the well known cabaret band Showaddywaddy from the city with lead singer Dave Bartram and their 1950s-themed songs. The De Montfort Hall held the first of its annual One-World festivals, with the aim of celebrating the cultural diversity of the city and breaking down the barriers of hostility and suspicion that had a potential to foment racial conflict. Adult and children's groups performed traditional dances and music from the many communities settled here – British, Irish, East European, Asian, African and Caribbean. These festivals continued until the 1980s.
1980s[link]
The early 1980s saw Leicester punk band Rabid have two minor indie hits, and there were greater successes later in the decade for Yeah Yeah Noh. The mid-1980s saw the emergence of bands such as Gaye Bykers on Acid, Crazyhead, The Bomb Party, and The Hunters Club, who were all associated with the Grebo scene. The Deep Freeze Mice had formed in 1979 and went on to release ten albums in total. Diesel Park West had their first top 75 hits in the late 1980s. Other notable Leicester bands from this decade included Po!, Blab Happy and Chrome Molly.
1990s[link]
The band Prolapse, was formed by a group of Leicester University and Polytechnic students in 1992. The band rose in popularity, and quickly gained a record deal with Cherry Red Records, recorded a number of John Peel sessions for Radio 1, and toured with Sonic Youth, Stereolab and Pulp. 1992 also saw the formation in Leicester of Cornershop, an Anglo-Asian agit pop band, who became most famous for the 1998 Number 1 single "Brimful of Asha". Perfume and Delicatessen both also rose to critical acclaim. Leicester is home of the influential Rave – Drum & Bass Formation Records label and associated 5HQ Record Shop.
Post-2000[link]
Since 2000 the city has once more seen a notable upsurge in the success of the local music scene. Several Leicester musicians and/or acts have received considerable media attention in their fields since 2003–2004. Kasabian, followed by Pacific Ocean Fire, The Displacements,[52] Kyte,[53] and Maybeshewill have all risen from the city to national attention. The Go! Team were first signed to local label Pickled Egg Records, other Leicester musicians (such as Frank Benbini) feature in notable national and international bands such as; Fun Lovin' Criminals, Happy Mondays, The Holloways, Envy & Other Sins, and A Hawk and a Hacksaw.
Kasabian albums Empire and West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum both achieved number one status in the UK Albums Chart in 2006 and 2009 respectively. Success followed in 2010 when the band won the Best British Group Award at the BRIT Awards 2010.
Other Leicester acts enjoying chart success in the Official UK Singles Chart during the 2000s include bassline act H "Two" O eventually reaching number two, and remaining there for three weeks, with their hit single "What's It Gonna Be". Dance music project Stunt eventually reached number nine with their collaborative hit single "Raindrops (Encore Une Fois)" (with Sash!). They have also gone on to collaborate with Europop sensation Basshunter.
The development of the award-winning music festival Summer Sundae with connecting Summer Sundae Fringe Festival (run by the local arts collective Pineapster) as well as other music festivals focused on blues and folk music may well provide the city with more of a focus for its local bands to break out nationally. 2006 saw the closure of The Attik, a venue that for over twenty years had played host to hundreds of bands.
In popular culture[link]
Leicester is the setting for the fictional diaries of Adrian Mole, created by Sue Townsend. He lives in a fictional suburb known as 'Mangold Parva'. There, Mole lives and owns a second hand bookshop in the laters novels, notably, Townsend's latest, Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years. The local Leicestershire MP is Pandora Braithwaite, a fictional Labour MP since the 1997 General Election.
Sport[link]
Professional & semi professional sports teams include: Leicester Tigers (rugby union), Leicester City (football), Leicester Lions (speedway), and the Leicestershire County Cricket Club.
Sports clubs include: Leicester Coritanian A.C. (athletics) and Leicester Penguins Swimming Club who were awarded Sports Club of the Year by the Leicester Mercury at their annual sports awards for 2007 & 2008.
Leicester Racecourse is located to the south of the city in Oadby.
After a period of success for the football, cricket and rugby teams around the turn of the millennium, Leicester was for some time dubbed (by the local press and local inhabitants at least) the sporting capital of the UK, and a statue commemorating this period was erected in the town centre.
Leicester Tigers on Welford Road are one of the most successful rugby union teams in Europe, having won the European cup twice, the first tier of English rugby eight times, and the Anglo-Welsh cup six times. Notable former players include England's Rugby World Cup winning captain Martin Johnson, Neil Back, Dean Richards and Austin Healey.
Leicester City have also enjoyed a fair degree of success. They have championed the second tier of the English league system on no less than six occasions, competed in the top flight regularly during their history, won three Football League Cups and reached the FA Cup Final four times although they have never won the trophy. In the 2008–09 season they competed in and won League One (third tier), to which they were relegated for the first time. Their current stadium is the King Power Stadium, situated south of the city centre and near to the site Filbert Street from which they relocated in 2002 after 111 years. Notable former managers include Jimmy Bloomfield, David Pleat, Brian Little, and Martin O'Neill. Notable former players include Gordon Banks, Peter Shilton, Frank Worthington, Gary Lineker, Alan Smith, Emile Heskey, Neil Lennon, Simon Grayson and Matt Elliott.
Motorcycle speedway racing has been staged in Leicester on and off since 1928. In the pioneer days speedway was staged at a track known as Leicester Super situated in Melton Road and at 'The Stadium' in Blackbird Road. Post war, the Leicester Hunters joined the National League Division Three in 1949 and operated at various levels until closure at the end of 1962. The sport was revived for a spell from 1968 before the sale and subsequent redevelopment of the site ended the first Leicester Lions era in 1983. Planning permission was granted in October 2009 for a brand-new speedway track at Beaumont Park, with Leicester Lions returning to action in 2011 in the Premier League.
Leicester is also home to the Leicester Falcons, an American football team that competes as part of the BAFA National Leagues and in 2011 was promoted to the BAFA Premier League, the highest tier of British American Football. The Falcons' home ground is located at Babington Community College, in the Beaumont Leys area of the city.
Leicester Phoenix are a rugby league club based in the centre of the city. The club was founded in 1986. After playing in different British Amateur Rugby League Association leagues (namely the Midlands and South West Amateur Rugby League and the East Midlands Amateur Rugby League) the Phoenix were one of the 10 founder members of the Rugby League Conference (then the Southern Conference League) in 1997 reaching the grand final in the inaugural season. Since then they have been one of the league's most consistent performers. Their 1st Grade Team currently compete in the Midlands Premier division of the Rugby League Conference.
Leicester Rowing Club is a rowing and sculling club based in the centre of the city on the River Soar. Formed in 1882 they represent Leicester in Regatta and Head Races around Great Britain and Worldwide. The club insignia is based on the mythical Wyvern and rowers compete in the club's colours of black and white.[54]
The city also hosted British and World track cycling and Road Racing championships at its Saffron Lane velodrome in August 1970. The cycle track was improved specially for the event which was televised all over the world. Another first meant that sponsors were allowed to buy sections of the track to utilise for advertising purposes. This was also the first time that a public road – the A46 – was closed in the UK to allow the Road Race to take place:- See The Benny Foster Story published by Fretwell 1971.[citation needed] However, this was the second world championships to be hosted by the city, in 1883 the first ever Bicycling World Championships were held at the Belgrave Road Grounds.[citation needed]
In 1989 and 2009, the city hosted the British Special Olympics. This was the adopted charity for the Lord Mayor of Leicester 2008–2009,Councillor Manjula Sood.[55]
Until its demolition in 1999 Granby Halls was a popular live music, exhibition and sports arena in the city. It was also notable as the long serving home of professional basketball team, the Leicester Riders, from 1980 until 1999.
The Dolly Rockit Rollers roller derby league are based in Leicester. They were ranked amongst the top eight UKRDA members for 2011, and played at the Association's 2012 championship tournament as a result.
Hockey Club are based at Leicester Grammar School in Great Glen.
Leicester was also the '2008 European City of Sport'.[56]
Public services[link]
In the public sector, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust is one of the larger employers in the city, with over 12,000 employees working for the Trust. Leicester City Primary Care Trust employs over 1,000 full and part time staff providing healthcare services in the city. Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust employs 3,000 staff providing mental health and learning disability services in the city and county.
In the private sector are Nuffield Hospital Leicester and the Spire Hospital Leicester.
Notable people[link]
Main article: List of people from Leicester
Local media[link]
Leicester is home to the Leicester Mercury newspaper, and the Midlands Asian Television channel known as MATV Channel 6.
BBC Radio Leicester was the first BBC Local Radio station in Britain, opening on 8 November 1967. Other analogue FM radio stations are Demon FM which is Leicester's student radio station broadcasting from Demontfort University, Takeover Radio, Capital FM East Midlands Gem 106, 106.6 Smooth Radio and Hindu Sanskar Radio, which only broadcasts during Hindu religious festivals. BBC Asian Network and Sabras Radio broadcast on AM.
The local DAB multiplex has the following stations:
- Capital FM East Midlands
- Demon FM
- BBC Radio Leicester
- Sabras Radio
- Galaxy Digital
- Highways Agency Traffic Radio
- XFM
- Classic Gold GEM
- Gem 106
- Asian Plus – also known as Hindu Sanskar Radio
- Takeover Radio
- Smooth Radio
There are two hospital radio stations in Leicester, Radio Fox and Radio Gwendolen. The first children's radio station, Takeover Radio, broadcasts in Leicester.
Twin cities[link]
Leicester is twinned with six cities.[57]
- Strasbourg, France (1960)
- Krefeld, Germany (1969)
- Masaya, Nicaragua (1987)
- Chongqing, China (1993)
- Rajkot, India (1996)
- Haskovo, Bulgaria (2008)
References[link]
- Notes
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- ^ Leicester is on the River Soar and Legro or Leire could have been the name of the tributary at Leire. "Legorensis civitas" (803) and "Ligera ceaster" (917) are the earliest forms; William of Malmesbury says Leicester is named "a Legra fluvio" (from the river Legra). Ekwall, E. (1940) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names; 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press; p. 280
- ^ Wright, Neil (1984). The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. Woodbridge, England: Boydell and Brewer. pp. xvii–xviii. ISBN 978-0-85991-641-7.
- ^ "...the Historia does not bear scrutiny as an authentic history and no scholar today would regard it as such.": Wright (1984: xxviii)
- ^ Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain, translated by Lewis Thorpe, p. 81 and 86, Harmondsworth, 1966
- ^ "Official Website of the British Monarchy – Jane". http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page44.asp. [dead link]
- ^ "1645:The Storming of Leicester and the Battle of Naseby". http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/military/1645-leicester-naseby.htm.
- ^ [1]
- ^ Leicester's Ugandan Asian success story. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
- ^ A history of Leicester. Retrieved 28 November 2010.
- ^ Equality and Human Rights Commission – home page[dead link]
- ^ Research (The University of Manchester)[dead link]
- ^ "Equality and Human Rights Commission – home page". http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/research/mrpd/events/documents/BSPS07SimpsonFinneyMinorityWhiteCities.doc.
- ^ "August 1990 Maximum". http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/monitordetail.php?seasonid=14&year=1990&indexid=TXx&stationid=1852. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ "August 2003 Maximum". http://web.archive.org/web/20030819214645/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/interesting/aug03maxtemps.html. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ^ "1971-00 Average annual maximum". http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=TXx&stationid=1852. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ "Max >25c days". http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=SU&stationid=1852. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ "Jan 1963 Minimum". http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/monitordetail.php?seasonid=7&year=1963&indexid=TNn&stationid=1852. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ "1971-00 average rainfall". http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=RR&stationid=1852. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ "1971-00 average raindays". http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/calcdetail.php?seasonid=0&periodid=1971-2000&indexid=RR1&stationid=1852.. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
- ^ "Climate Normals and extremes". KNMI. July 2011. http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/mapserver/climatology.php?indexcat=**&indexid=TXx&periodidselect=1971-2000&seasonid=0&scalelogidselect=no&minx=-374761.904762&miny=-4711904.761905&maxx=491904.761905&maxy=-4061904.761905&MapSize=560%2C420&imagewidth=560&imageheight=420&mainmap.x=185&mainmap.y=168&CMD=QUERY_POINT&CMD=QUERY_POINT#bottom. Retrieved 26 Feb 2011.
- ^ [2]
- ^ United Kingdom Census 2001 (2001). "Leicester (Local Authority)". neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadDatasetList.do?a=3&b=276827&c=leicester&d=13&g=394575&i=1001x1003&m=0&r=1&s=1198285960875&enc=1&domainId=16. Retrieved 28 December 2007.
- ^ a b "Leicester profile of 2001 census". Office for National Statistics. 2003. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/00fn.asp. Retrieved 28 December 2007.
- ^ "Mid-year estimates for 2006" (XLS). Office of National Statistics. 2007. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Expodata/Spreadsheets/D9664.xls. Retrieved 28 December 2007.
- ^ "Leicester population density". Statistics.gov.uk. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=276827&c=leicester&d=13&e=16&g=394575&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1198800250139&enc=1&dsFamilyId=789. Retrieved 28 December 2007.
- ^ "Leicester key statistics". Statistics.gov.uk. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=3&b=276827&c=leicester&d=13&e=16&g=394575&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1198801397203&enc=1. Retrieved 28 December 2007.
- ^ "Leicester country of birth data". Statistics.gov.uk. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=276827&c=leicester&d=13&e=16&g=394575&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1198800401075&enc=1&dsFamilyId=85. Retrieved 28 December 2007.
- ^ "Leicester ethnic grouping percentages". Office of National Statistics. 2001. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=276827&c=leicester&d=13&e=16&g=394575&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1198799473446&enc=1&dsFamilyId=87. Retrieved 28 December 2007.
- ^ Leicester's Polish Community (17 January 2008). "Leicester – Features – Leicester's Polish Community". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/articles/2008/01/17/polish_community_feature.shtml. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
- ^ Dilwar Hussain (2010). [http://www.soros.org/initiatives/home/articles_publications/publications/leicester-report-20100422/a-muslims-leicester-20100422.pdf Muslims in Leicester] (Report). Open Society Institute. http://www.soros.org/initiatives/home/articles_publications/publications/leicester-report-20100422/a-muslims-leicester-20100422.pdf.
- ^ "The Diversity of Leicester May 2008, A Demographic Profile". Leicester City Council. Archived from the original on 8 January 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090108034740/http://www.leicesterpartnership.org.uk/EasySite/lib/serveDocument.asp?doc=111607&pgid=113861. Retrieved 16 November 2008.
- ^ http://www.prospectleicestershire.co.uk/why-here
- ^ http://www.uk.cat.com/cda/layout?m=65333&x=7
- ^ Panesar, Jeevan (2006-10-13); "Diwali in Leicester, BBC, Accessed 25 January 2011.
- ^ Walkers Crisps, Coming to the crunch – The Manufacturer, October 2006
- ^ http://www.pepsico.co.uk/our-company/contact-us/our-offices-factories-and-sites
- ^ Our company[dead link] – Samworth Brothers, October 2007
- ^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
- ^ includes hunting and forestry
- ^ includes energy and construction
- ^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured
- ^ "Leicester 360° Images – 360 degree tour of Shree Jalaram Prathana Mandal". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/360_images/2002/11/shree_jalaram_prathana_mandal.shtml. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
- ^ "Leicester 360° Images – 360 degree tour of Jain Centre". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/360_images/2002/11/jain_temple.shtml. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
- ^ http://www.islamiccentre.org/
- ^ http://www.masjid-umar.org/
- ^ "Leicester – In Pictures – Masjid Umar mosque". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/panoramas/masjid_mosque_360.shtml. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
- ^ "Plans for £150m station facelift". BBC News. 6 March 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7280724.stm.
- ^ Schools building deal is signed and sealed[dead link] – Leicester Mercury, 19 December 2007
- ^ "Curve website". http://www.leicesterpac.co.uk/.
- ^ talking history:the newsletter of the East Midlands Oral History Archive. Number 7: May 2003.
- ^ "The Displacements - Track Reviews - NME.COM". http://www.nme.com/reviews/the-displacements/9338.
- ^ "Kyte Announce New 2008 Tour Dates". http://www.glasswerk.co.uk/index.php?db=national&page=news,article&id=3503.
- ^ "Leicester Rowing Club at British Rowing". Britishrowing.org. http://www.britishrowing.org/clubs/leicester-rc. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
- ^ "City to host its second 'games'". BBC News. 13 July 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/6898257.stm. Retrieved 14 July 2007.
- ^ "Leicester City Council – European City of Sport 2008". Leicester.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 7 May 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080507020151/http://www.leicester.gov.uk/index.asp?pgid=75325. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
- ^ "Twinning". Leicester City council. http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/lc/twinning/. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
- Further reading
- Hoskins, W. G. (1957) Leicestershire: an illustrated essay on the history of the landscape. London: Hodder & Stoughton
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