Reading List - Rugby World Cup

---

Time to round up the interweb's best - anything's got to be better than watching England v South Africa. England are crap, their boneheaded approach summed up thus - Jason Robinson's just gone to ground having pulled a hamstring, only to have his entire forward pack leap on him as one. Dicks.

- Habana beware as we unleash our whizzo pranks - the brilliant Harry Pearson on how England can compete: "...Clive Woodward led his squad team-building in what survival experts acknowledge is the world's harshest environment - a provincial prep school... Martin Johnson and his men were subjected to a brutal regime of syrup of figs, boiled cabbage, cold showers, cross-country runs, Latin, and being forced to watch as the older boys ate all the cakes their mummies had sent...Jonny Wilkinson told the BBC's John Inverdale... "Please don't lock me in the ink cupboard again, sir. It's dark and it smells and there are creatures scurrying and scratching . . ." - Har

- The Dropkicks help office drones survive the World Cup - nice action. The droppies have been on fire, with a record turnaround podcast and bonus fashion run-down... they were even nice enough to publish my lame-ass lolblacks

- This guy reckons Doug Howlett looks like Darth Vader - makes a change from the usual Greg Sommerville / Yoda comparison

- Oh, and go see Superbad for a break from the rubgy, it's way funny