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		<title>Rugby World Cup 2011 &#8211; halftime</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The RWC pool phase is over. Pool 1: New Zealand &#38; Fance Pool 2: England &#38; Argentina Pool 3: Ireland &#38; Australia Pool 4: South Africa &#38; Wales At first glance, it&#39;s a Tom Yorke situation: Quarters calendar: 08/10 18:00 &#8211; Ireland vs Wales 08/10 20:30 &#8211; England vs France 09/10 18:00 &#8211; South Africa [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The RWC pool phase is over.</p>
<p>Pool 1: New Zealand &amp; Fance<br />
	Pool 2: England &amp; Argentina<br />
	Pool 3: Ireland &amp; Australia<br />
	Pool 4: South Africa &amp; Wales</p>
<p>At first glance, it&#39;s a Tom Yorke situation:</p>
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<p>Quarters calendar:</p>
<p><span class="matchTimeConvertible" id="08/10 - 18:00,201110081800">08/10 18:00 &#8211; <strong>Ireland vs Wales</strong><br />
	</span><span class="matchTimeConvertible" id="08/10 - 18:00,201110081800">08/10 20:30 &#8211; <strong>England vs France</strong><br />
	</span><span class="matchTimeConvertible" id="08/10 - 18:00,201110081800">09/10 18:00 &#8211; <strong>South Africa vs Australia</strong><br />
	</span><span class="matchTimeConvertible" id="08/10 - 18:00,201110081800">09/10 20:30 &#8211; <strong>New Zealand vs Argentina</strong></span></p>
<p>Europe against Europe, (Four)Nations against themselves. It&#39;s a RHCP situation:</p>
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<p>France should be the weakest team in the quarters, but they&#39;re the most unpredictable too.<br />
	I don&#39;t want to spend my time talking about italian team. Alberto <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/103661735533325647140/posts/Hdk2yn7aj9o" target="_blank">did it</a> and I totally agree with him.<br />
	I just want to talk about destiny, death &amp; rebirth.</p>
<p><strong>Carter&#39;s curse. The fear is around the corner<br />
	</strong></p>
<p>This morning Dan Carter has declared that his Rugby World Cup is over.</p>
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<p>The magic man: talent, cleverness and 21 points (6 Con, 2 Pen, 1 Drop) scored during two games is saying goodbye because of a groin injury. The All Black fly half said: &quot;I knew it was pretty serious because of the pain and because it was quite unusual. I&#39;ve kicked thousands of balls since I&nbsp;was a young fella and I&#39;ve never had this happen kicking a ball. It has been really tough to try and put my finger on why and constantly asking &#39;why did this happen?&#39; and I don&#39;t have the answer unfortunately. Lying in bed on&nbsp;Saturday night was pretty tough, looking back on what was probably one of the most craziest days of my life&quot;.</p>
<p>	<span class="st">Saying goodbye isn&#39;t the hard part, it&#39;s what we leave behind that&#39;s tough. Now the keys of NZL team are in </span>Colin Slade&#39;s hands. All Blacks assistant coach Steve Hansen said &quot;Colin Slade needs to understand that he&#39;s Colin Slade, doesn&#39;t have to be Dan Carter&quot;. NZL team wants to win the world cup: next stop is going to be Argentina on October 9th. The Pumas are watching from the window. God seems to be south american&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Murrayfield</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[E&#8217; la domenica che aspettavo da un po&#8217;. Mi sveglio, sono carico. In mattinata visita al castello di Edimburgo, dove ho scoperto che il nome della citt&#224; si scrive con la m per via dell&#8217;agglutinazione tra la radice del nome (celtico &#34;Din Eidyn&#34;) e il suffisso burgh (per cui vi rimando a wikipedia). Dalle finestre [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>E&#8217; la domenica che aspettavo da un po&#8217;.</p>
<p>Mi sveglio, sono carico.<br />
In mattinata visita al castello di Edimburgo, dove ho scoperto che il nome della citt&agrave; si scrive con la m per via dell&#8217;agglutinazione tra la radice del nome (celtico &quot;Din Eidyn&quot;) e il suffisso burgh (per cui vi rimando a <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgh" target="_blank">wikipedia</a>).<br />
Dalle finestre delle sale del museo militare (infinite vetrine noiose di armamenti e uniformi) s&#8217;intravede Murrayfield.</p>
<p>E&#8217; un nome che dice poco ai pi&ugrave;. Dal 1925 ad oggi &egrave; uno dei tempi dove si celebra il rito della conquista del territorio chiamato rugby.<br />
Una grande emozione esserci dopo aver sentito e letto tanti resoconti su partite assurte ormai a eventi mitologici.</p>
<p>Ingresso dei cancelli: dopo il tornello ti viene fornito il libro originale dei canti della nazionale scozzese e offerta la meraviglia del REFLink, un auticolare che ti permette di ascoltare live le parole dell&#8217;arbitro. Dopo 20 metri si spalanca l&#8217;immensa piazza del food &amp; drink. Migliaia di persone che brulicano tra camioncini e banchetti che spillano birra. Bimbi che mettono in mostra i loro fondamentali con la palla ovale sfindandosi 1 contro 1 sui prati. Famiglie cuore nella Family Area, tutta di legno. Ti sembra un posto ricreativo, non uno stadio.</p>
<p>Ingresso nella struttura: Raggiungi il numero del tuo settore ed uno steward ti controlla il tagliando, accompagnandoti al tuo seggiolino. 68.000 posti ed &egrave; pieno. Tifosi scozzesi e francesi insieme. Niente divisioni tra i settori. Niente divisioni tra spettatori e campo. Niente steccati o fossati. L&#8217;ultimo seggiolino in basso &egrave; a 4 metri dalla linea dell&#8217;out del campo.</p>
<p>Mi siedo con Gamba e inizia l&#8217;inno francese. Grande confusione. I francesi cantano tutti e saranno almeno 15.000.<br />
Poi arrivano 25 suonatori di cornamusa e si dispongono 5&#215;5 al centro del campo. Parte l&#8217;inno scozzese. Tutto lo stadio canta, con un filo di voce. Dopo un paio di minuti le cornamuse sfumano, e le ultime strofe sono sussurrate a cappella da tutto lo stadio.<br />
Anche io, che ho uno spirito tutt&#8217;altro che nazionalista, ho i brividi&#8230;</p>
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