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Lucozade
Issue 50 - October 21, 1999
 
A Site For Sore Eyes
Rugby World Cup

Apparently the world has gone rugby bonkers. We don't think the ruggers has lit up the planet as much as the footy, but who are we to judge? Especially seeing as the blokes that play it could probably hospitalise us with massive internal injuries in about 10 seconds. So, instead of standing around in the cold, we get the full rugby flavour from our comfortable chairs.

We wanted to make sure than you knew exactly which site had the most content, so, we set off looking for information on the most unrecognised but enigmatic team in the world - Tonga!

First port of call was ITV's own coverage. A rather uninspiring design revealed little about our team. However, we now know exactly what time their matches are and what channel we can see them on. Which is nice.

Next up, Rugby 365, sister of the well-established Football 365. With more news than a rugby player has scars, expectations were high. Upon finding Tonga's page, we were sorely disappointed though. All it had was news from the main feed, but only those stories that related to Tonga. Elsewhere on the site, however, we found quite a lot of useful (or useless, depending on your viewpoint) stuff. For those uninitiated to wonders of rugby, there's a full run-down of the rules, a hilarious lookalikes section and even an enthralling article on the development of the rugby ball. So, no good for Tonga, but absolutely brilliant for practically everything else.

We clicked over to Planet Rugby with little hope of finding anything more about Tonga. How wrong we were. The site is bursting to the seams with information about every team in the Cup, even our beloved Tonga. With run-downs of the teams, from their star players to stats provided by IBM, there's little else we could want. And the piece de resistance was the Tongan national anthem, so we can sing along at the start of the match! Genius! Altogether now, "E 'Otua Mafimafi..."

Game Kid