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Rugby VII Torino vs Rugby Bergamo 40-0
Pictures from the match between Rugby VII Torino and Rugby Bergamo. Click here to see all...
Images from Rugby VII Torino vs Rugby Parabiago
A few group pictures from the match between Rugby VII Torino and Rugby Parabiago. Snow fell on Settimo Torinese before the match, but most of it had gone by the time the teams started...
Rugby VII Torino vs Parabiago 23-24
U.S. Rugby Parabiago visited Rugby VII Torino in Settimo Torinese, and got away with victory after a closely fought match. 24-23 was the final score, after a last second kick by the hosts bounced off...
More pictures from VII Rugby Torino vs CUS Pavia
Last chunk of pictures from the match between VII Rugby Torino and CUS Pavia. More pics from the same match available at "VII Rugby Torino vs CUS Pavia", "Pictures from VII Rugby Torino vs CUS Pavia" and "Preparing for the...
Preparing for the scrum
Another couple of pictures from the match between VII Rugby Torino and CUS Pavia played on...
Pictures from VII Rugby Torino vs CUS Pavia
A few more pictures from yesterday's match between VII Rugby Torino and CUS Pavia. Please look at the copyright notes in you plan to fiddle with these...
VII Rugby Torino vs CUS Pavia
Another Sunday taking rugby photos, another Sunday watching a victory for VII Rugby Torino. This time it was 40-16 on CUS Pavia, on a dry-ish day in Settimo Torinese. Before the match During the...
A few more pictures from a rainy rugby match (Settimo vs Borgo Poncarale)
Keeping the camera dry on such a rainy day was just not possible, so I am glad the camera did not die on me. And a brighter lens would have been in order: the Sigma 50-500mm offers a range few lenses can match, but it is not the right lens if you have to work in overcast weather. And talking about this... if anybody has a Nikkor 80-200mm/2.8 to sell, let me know. Despite the above mentioned limitations,...
Always protect your head
Another image from the Rugby VII Torino vs Borgo Poncarale match played on 31/10/2010. The player on the ground was initially hidden by a forest of legs; I took this picture after most of the players...
In rugby, your age doesn't matter
Despite watching rugby since the early Eighties, I have never seen a live rugby match before this, in October 2010. Rugby was not the most common sport in my neighbourhood in Italy, and even in the years I spent in the UK I have never seen people playing rugby. So all the rugby players I have ever seen were in their 20s or 30s. I am glad to see that there are exceptions, and that age, sometimes, does not matter:...
Rugby VII Torino vs Borgo Poncarale: It's raining, it's pouring...
The location: Settimo Torinese, near Turin, in Italy. The event: a rugby match between Rugby VII Torino, the home team, and Borgo Poncarale from Veneto. The unwelcome guest: rain constantly pouring down on players, umpires and yours...
More rugby pictures
Another few pictures from the VII Torino Rugby-San Mauro match of the past weekend. Keep your eyes on the ball Like...
My first Oval Ball Weekend: VII Rugby Torino vs San Mauro
The first time I watched a Six Nations match on tv was around 1982, and back then that rugby competition was still known as the Five Nations. The first time I watched an NFL match on TV was in the early 1980s, and the Oakland Raiders were playing with Jim Plunkett as quarterback. American football has been one of the enduring passion of my life, and rugby is a sport I appreciate a lot. And up to the past weekend I had never seen a live rugby match or a live American football match,...