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	Rugby union: Clubs' bid for power threatens Heineken Cup \| Rugby union \| Guardian Unlimited Sport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The future of the Heineken Cup could be left hanging in the balance today when a proposal from the Premiership clubs for a greater say in the running of the competition is likely to be rejected, reviving the threat of a breakaway tournament.
		Premier Rugby, which represents the clubs, insists that the proposed change to the running of European Rugby Cup should be considered in isolation without the issue of player release, not least because time is pressing, with the current agreement for the competition running out at the end of the season.
		That ends in May and European Rugby Cup is looking to replace it with a five-year agreement which rolls on every year, with a two-year notice period for anyone who wants to withdraw.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /rugbyunion/story/0,,1930868,00.html (648 words)

	Heineken Cup [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ulster Ulster Rugby (also known as the Irish Rugby Football Union Ulster Branch) is one of four branches of the IRFU, and is responsible for rugby union in the historic Irish province of Ulster, six counties of which are in Northern Ireland and three in the Republic of Ireland.
		European Rugby Shield The European Challenge Cup in rugby union, known as the Parker Pen Shield from 2001 to 2003 and Parker Pen Challenge Cup from 2003, is the sister competition to the Heineken Cup.
		Parker Pen Challenge Cup The European Challenge Cup in rugby union, known as the Parker Pen Shield from 2001 to 2003 and Parker Pen Challenge Cup from 2003, is the sister competition to the Heineken Cup.
	www.wikimirror.com /Heineken_Cup (2834 words)

	Rugby Union - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rugby union is a team sport that was (according to legend) developed from the rules used to play football at Rugby School in England.
		However, the trophy for the Rugby Union World Cup bears the name of "Webb Ellis" in his honour, and a plaque at the school 'commemorates' the 'achievement'.
		For the next few years rugby clubs continued to agree rules before the start of each game as they had always done, but on January 26, 1871, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) formed, leading to the standardisation of the rules for all clubs in England that played a variety of the Rugby School laws.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /rugby_union.htm (3260 words)

	Heineken Cup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Heineken Cup sponsored by Heineken (known as the H Cup in France due to alcohol advertising laws) is an annual rugby union competition involving leading club, regional and provincial teams from England, France, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Italy.
		Brive won the next tournament and reached the final again in 1997-98 but were beaten late in the game by Bath with a penalty kick.
		However English clubs had decided to withdraw from the competition due to a dispute between European Rugby and the RFU over fixture scheduling and money.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heineken_Cup (790 words)

	Welsh Rugby Union [Definition]
		They play in the Celtic League, European Rugby Cup The Heineken Cup sponsored by Heineken (known as the H Cup in France due to alcohol advertising laws) is an annual rugby union competition involving leading club, regional and provincial teams from England, France, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Italy....
		European Challenge Cup The European Challenge Cup in rugby union, known as the Parker Pen Shield from 2001 to 2003 and Parker Pen Challenge Cup from 2003, is the sister competition to the Heineken Cup.
		European Shield In 2004/5 the twelve teams who failed to progress from the qualifying round of the European Challenge Cup were joined in the draw for the European Shield by Bucuresti (Romania), UCM Madrid (Spain), Bera Bera (Spain) and Lisboa Rugby Club (Portugal).
	www.wikimirror.com /Welsh_Rugby_Union (1768 words)

	IRFU - Irish Rugby Football Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The importance of schools rugby to the recruitment and development of players is well known but tangible support is required and a sum of £250,000 has been ear marked to assist schools in operating their rugby programmes.
		European rugby badly needs stability if the gap between the Southern and Nothern Hemisphere is to be bridged and the agreement signed in Paris in March is to be welcomed.
		The matter of an international rugby stadium for the future is once again delayed, this time by the decision of the government to conduct a feasibility study for a national stadium to be funded by the government.
	www.irfu.ie /reports/secr_rep.asp (3813 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Rugby Union \| French clubs to quit Heineken Cup
		European Rugby Cup, which runs the competition, says talks over the future of the Heineken Cup are "ongoing".
		And LNR, Premier Rugby's equivalent in France, says the row centres on an alleged agreement by the RFU and the French federation to give 50% of their stakes in ERC to their clubs.
		ERC is adamant the row will not affect the negotiations over the Paris Accord, the agreement detailing the structure of the Heineken Cup and European Challenge Cup, which runs out in July 2007.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/rugby_union/6269979.stm (647 words)

	European Rugby Cup - Heineken Cup : How they stand... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bath Rugby and Benetton Treviso both need to finish with two victories to be in with a shout, with the English club facing Leinster at home and Bourgoin away.
		Last season’s Cup runners-up, Toulouse, have the Saints looking over their shoulders, but are still favourites to head the group after Round 6.
		Edinburgh Rugby are out of the running, but last season’s quarter-finalists are desperate to have a say in the final standings.
	www.heinekenrugby.com /cup/25_3403.php (938 words)

	Sky Snap Up Heineken Cup
		The BBC is thought to have been in talks with the competition's organiser, European Rugby Cup Ltd (ERC), for up to a year and the corporation was joined in the summer by Channel 5.
		The World Cup is currently being shown on ITV and, without the Six Nations, Sky would only have held a domestic portfolio of England's autumn internationals at Twickenham - and there is none this year because of the World Cup - and the rights to the Zurich Premiership rugby.
		The Heineken Cup has gone the other way but the ERC thinking is that its competition has commanded such interest that it can tolerate being available to a smaller audience.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/10-17-2003-46625.asp (597 words)

	Emerald Rugby
		“Rugby at its most exalted level — at Heineken Cup final level, where the unique demands of the emotional hothouse rule out any possibility of a higher calling for a club player ” Chris Hewett — The Independent.
		There is no doubt about it, the Heineken Cup is the event that refreshes the parts of the true fan.
		They descended on Twickenham in their droves from all over the continent for a wonderful encounter between the two best sides is this season’s spectacular.
	www.emeraldrugby.com /news_detail.asp?id=516 (449 words)

	Rugby Union Headlines - Sport - PIPEX
		Heineken Cup chief Jean-Pierre Lux has painted a grim picture of reality for the tournament's future as European rugby's major competition faces meltdown.
		In the meantime, ERC must be braced for existing tournament broadcasters and sponsors pulling out, given the tournament's meaningless nature if English and French clubs do not participate.
		ERC president Lux said: "It is a real shame from a sporting point of view that we cannot come to an agreement.
	sports.pipex.com /rugbyunion/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=rugby/07/04/04/RUGBYU_Clubs_Nightlead.html (615 words)

	Rugby Union Heineken Cup Betting - European Cup Rugby
		You might say the Heineken Cup has added the missing ingredient to the domestic season and is now as much coveted as the FA Cup is to the football world.
		Bringing together the provincial teams in Ireland and France has added massive strength in depth to this european rugby union cup competition and made it a prize all the teams wish to win.
		All the bookmakers will do an active Heineken Cup Live Betting market and with the extensive TV coverage of the event all the matches are great betting heats.
	www.betting-directory.com /sport/heineken-cup-betting.php (210 words)

	Rugby World Cup web.com - The Unofficial World cup website
		Premier Rugby say an agreement to that effect was reached with the RFU last October, although Twickenham bosses have categorically denied this.
		Scottish rugby is already in a perilous state, some £20m in debt, and last week the SRU were forced to close the Borders as a professional entity.
		The absence of European competition is estimated to cost Scottish rugby £2m and the SRU fear the consequences could be fatal to the game.
	www.worldcupweb.com /wcrugby/news/viewarticle.asp?id=3120 (956 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Rugby: European Cup/Shield Quarterfinals are decided
		Yesterday saw the conclusion of the Pool games in both the European Cup and Shield and there were a number of crucial games upon which the quarterfinal line up will read.
		Bath, the 1998 European champions, were within touching distance of a quarterfinal spot when Harlequins launched a stirring fightback to lead Cardiff 23-20, only for the Welsh club to finish on top.
		Bath tore up the Heineken Cup formbook with victory over tournament favourites Toulouse in France yesterday, but must now kick themselves for the rest of this season after allowing a nine-point lead to slip at Swansea in early December.
	www.eurovision.ie /sport/2000/0116/rugby2.html (375 words)

	FRENCH TOP 14 CLUBS TO BOYCOTT EUROPEAN CUP
		French rugby’s Top 14 clubs are to boycott next year's Heineken Cup competition in an ongoing row about the extent to which clubs should have a say in the overall running of the event.
		The Ligne National de Rugby said its clubs would not participate in the next edition of the competition because the row in England between the Rugby Football Union and the Premiership clubs has led to uncertainty over the event's future.
		ERC said it was reviewing the structure of the competition with the six stakeholder nations and the next meeting due to take place on February 14.
	www.sportbusiness.com /news/161085/french-top-14-clubs-to-boycott-european-cup (228 words)

	Eurosport.co.uk - Rugby, European Cup: calendar, results, the best of the European Cup LIVE - European Cup - Eurosport
		The fall-out from the European boycott continues as the SRU warns it...
		The future of the European Cup was thrown into doubt after England's premiership clubs voted to support a French boycott.
		England's premiership clubs are threatening to withdraw from next season's European Cup due to a dispute with the RFU.
	www.eurosport.com /rugby/european-cup/2006-2007 (457 words)

	European Rugby Cup - Heineken Cup : Heineken Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Heineken furthered its involvement in rugby in the form of a partnership with the Welsh leagues.
		Known as the Heineken leagues, the brand was synonymous with Welsh rugby for the latter part of the 1980's and 1990's.
		In 1996 Heineken then became the Title Sponsor to the new European Club tournament, and to date is the only sponsor of the Heineken Cup.
	www.europeanchallengecup.com /cup/39_160.php (174 words)

	Gloucester Rugby Club : Associate Members Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		European rugby bosses have confirmed that this season's Heineken Cup final will be held at Dublin's Lansdowne Road on Saturday May 24, the second time that the European showpiece has been staged there.
		Last year's final at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium attracted a sellout crowd,and European Rugby Cup Ltd (ERC) chiefs will be hoping those figures can be matched at the home of Irish rugby, which also hosted the final back in 1999 when Ulster defeated Colomiers.
		News of the Heineken Cup final being awarded to Lansdowne Road will be a timely boost for the Irish Rugby Football Union, who had hoped to move into the proposed 'Bertie Bowl' stadium - a new venue in the city which now looks like being scrapped after the plug was pulled on government funding.
	www.ukathletics.net /vsite/vcontent/content/news/0,10869,4796-124894-126201-16815-65690-news-item,00.html (276 words)

	European Rugby Cup - Heineken Cup : MICHALAK SIDELINED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		European Rugby Cup - Heineken Cup : MICHALAK SIDELINED
		Toulouse and France outside half Frederic Michalak is set to be sidelined for several weeks after sustaining a right ankle injury during his side’s 25-12 European Cup rugby defeat of Northampton.
		Toulouse, last season's beaten Heineken Cup finalists, went top of pool three after Saturday's win atoned for last week's 23-21 loss to Northampton.
	www.europeansheild.com /cup/25_3334.php (192 words)

	Rugby Union Headlines - Sport - PIPEX
		The Heineken Cup, European rugby's blue riband event for clubs and regions, is in danger of being strangled by red tape and engulfed by red mist.
		English rugby is full of administrators, many of them handsomely paid, yet they have failed to resolve issue after issue against a back-drop of row after row.
		I would imagine, therefore, the message rugby fans from Cornwall to Cumbria want taken notice of is a simple one.
	sports.pipex.com /rugbyunion/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=rugby/07/01/18/RUGBYU_Column.html (602 words)

	Rugby: European Cup boycott confirmed, French News, France, Expatica
		They are likely to be followed by English clubs as they had announced earlier in the week that if French sides went through with their threat they would also not play in next season's tournament.
		Their decision came despite a last minute offer from FFR president Bernard Lapasset offering French clubs 15.66 percent shareholding in the ERC till 2009, which would have given the English clubs time to resolve their differences with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) as that is when their present contract runs out.
		However many in the RFU, including director of rugby Rob Andrew, share the view that the French are using it as a smokescreen and their real reason is fixture congestion following the World Cup which they are hosting in September and October.
	www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=38509&RSS (415 words)

	European Rugby Cup - Heineken Cup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yes, that’s the same Graham Rowntree who made a little piece of Heineken Cup history on Sunday, 5 December, 2004 when he became a member of the exclusive ERC Elite Award ’50 cap’ club during the Tigers’ epic 37-31 victory over London Wasps.
		Graham became the 10th player to qualify for an ERC Elite Award for reaching 50 appearances, hot on the heels of the Munster and Ireland prop John Hayes who reached his half-century at Castres two days earlier.
		As the Heineken Cup celebrates its 10th anniversary this season, tournament organisers ERC introduced their Elite Awards Scheme to recognise and reward the glittering list of elite players and teams who have made outstanding contributions to the northern hemisphere's leading club rugby tournament.
	www.europeansheild.com /cup/25_3309.php (920 words)

	European
		Ulster have been given an opportunity to qualify for the knockout stages of next season's European Cup when the draw was made earlier today.
		ERC Ltd said in a statement tonight that they are in constant contact with the Six Nations committee and the relevant unions to assess the effect the foot and mouth crisis may have on the two tournaments.
		They will be eager for revenge over Ulster who beat them at home twice in their European Cup winning season (in the group stage and in the quarter final), and to also erase the memory of Munster's superb semi final win in France just a few months ago.
	home.btconnect.com /Rugby-Ulster/2000_european_cup.htm (2195 words)

	European Rugby Cup : History
		The 10th anniversary season of European club rugby’s premier tournament turned into a triumph for coach Guy Noves — who has guided Toulouse to that unique treble in 1996, 2003 and 2005 — and captain Fabien Pelous.
		The tense final in Edinburgh on 22 May, 2005, failed to produce a try even though extra time was needed to separate the great rivals with Toulouse centre Yannick Jauzion taking the man of the match award in front of a crowd of 51,326.
		Wasps’ victory denied Toulouse the honour of being the first club to win the Heineken Cup crown three times — albeit only delaying that honour for another 12 months — the French giants having become only the second team to win the title twice when they added the 2003 title to their 1996 crown.
	www.ercrugby.co.uk /eng/37_74.php (556 words)

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