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Peter Jackson's season finale |
| 24 May, 18:47 |
| As soon as they saw Jonny Wilkinson collapse in an anguished heap, Cardiff Blues knew instinctively that their time had come to do more than smash another French monopoly. |
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Peter Jackson's Finals Preview |
| 19 May, 15:57 |
| Welsh clubs have been trying to win a European trophy for so long that Jonny Wilkinson was still at school when Cardiff reached the final of the inaugural Heineken Cup, on the first Sunday of 1996. |
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Peter Jackson's semi-final review |
| 3 May, 08:27 |
| A gigantic Gallic rainbow now illuminates the sky above Europe's rugby empire, straddling its boundaries from the far west of Ireland to the north-eastern corner of Spain. |
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Peter Jackson's semi-final preview |
| 27 Apr, 16:55 |
| Clement Poitrenaud takes a sharp intake of breath at the mention of Leinster and puffs out his cheeks in admiration. 'Their backs are sometimes crazy,' he says. 'They do such incredible things.' |
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Peter Jacksons' quarter-final review |
| 12 Apr, 11:11 |
| At the denouement of the best weekend the Heineken Cup has ever seen, a thunderous sound accompanied Toulouse on their lap of honour. |
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Peter Jackson's quarter-final preview |
| 7 Apr, 14:26 |
| The fog which threatened to envelop Thomond Park during that frantic Friday night in January could not quite obscure a sight unique in the annals of the Heineken Cup. |
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What happened to the English challenge? |
| 1 Apr, 14:47 |
| Peter Jackson, ercrugby.com's columnist, takes a look at how the balance of English and French teams has shifted in the 15th Heineken Cup season |
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Peter Jackson's Round 6 review |
| 25 Jan, 16:54 |
| For sheer gut-wrenching tension, there is nothing quite like the final pool round of the Heineken Cup. From the steaming mists of Thomond Park one night to Twickenham's hyper state of drop goal suspension the next, the annual Judgement Weekend put everyone through the emotional wringer as only it knows how. |
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Peter Jackon's Round 5 review |
| 18 Jan, 09:03 |
| The Guinness Premiership's oft-repeated claim to run the best club league in Europe is looking more feeble with the passing of every Heineken Cup weekend. By this time next week, the French will almost certainly have won four of the six pools, the English none, writes ercrugby.com columnist, Peter Jackson. |
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Peter Jackson's Round 4 review |
| 21 Dec, 15:51 |
| ercrugby.com columnist Peter Jackson takes a look at the prospects of the Heineken Cup hopefuls after the Big Freeze in Europe caused mayhem on the fixture list |
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Peter Jackson's round 3 review |
| 14 Dec, 11:39 |
| It may be a trifle premature to be thinking of an all-Ireland final in Paris next May and some sort of poetic justice for Thierry Henry's deliberate knock-on. |
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Peter Jackson's Round 3 preview |
| 8 Dec, 10:00 |
| Peter Jackson takes a look at the prospective fortunes of some of the big-name teams fighting for survival in this season's Heineken Cup, starting with former winners Bath Rugby, who face a tough match up with an in form Edinburgh side. |
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Flying start from the French |
| 23 Oct, 09:02 |
| The French are usually pretty hot when it comes to vital statistics, whether they referred to Brigitte Bardot in her prime or the number of Grand Slams carried home by their Napoleonic scrum-halves of the late 20th century, Jacques Fouroux and Pierre Berbizier. |
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Peter Jackson's Round 2 review |
| 19 Oct, 10:08 |
| ercrugby.com columnist Peter Jackson speaks to hat-trick hero Takudzwa Ngwenya in the South of France after a memorable day for the African born US Eagle in Europe. |
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Still no substitute for experience |
| 15 Oct, 10:54 |
| The first weekend of European action featured rather more than Treviso's heroically improbable crew of Italian giant-killers, a mighty declaration of intent from London Irish and two colossal matches in the English Midlands, writes ercrugby.com columnist Peter Jackson. |
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Jacko reviews Round 1 |
| 12 Oct, 11:18 |
| ercrugby.com columnist Peter Jackson delivers his review of the first round of action in the 15th season of the Heineken Cup |
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Peter Jackson's Heineken Cup Preview |
| 9 Oct, 11:35 |
| Peter Jackson starts with a team-by-team guide - with a few dodgy predictions thrown in as to who he thinks will still be there when the last drop of blood has been spilt at the end of the six pool rounds in mid-January. |
