French Rugby Sportsmanship Surprised & Delighted Irishman

South African fan hugs Japanese fan

With the Rugby World Cup 2023 just a few days away, the atmosphere in France, the hosts, and around the world is building. Some great rugby and with it, will come great sportsmanship stories.  A quick classy French sportsmanship story involving Ireland’s Brian O’Driscoll, leads to another French sportsmanship story which leads to a Maori … Read more

6 Nations Rugby Championship 2023 – Pre-Match Tension + Singing

^ Nations Wales v Ireland Pre-Match Excitement

The 6 Nations Rugby Championship – 2023 It’s back! Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales battle for the ancient honour of the  Triple Crown, while they plus France and Italy battle for the coveted 6 Nations Championship. This video, with over half a million views, let’s you feel the pride and intensity of this great competition. … Read more

Top 10 Tokyo 2021 Olympic Sportsmanship Moments

South African Tatjana Schoenmakers realises she has broken the world record

The Tokyo Olympics gave everyone a lift from this terrible pandemic which delayed the 2020 Olympics until 2021. There were many beautiful sportsmanship moments.  Tell us your favourite moment in the comments at the end. Meanwhile, here’s are our  Top 10 Sportsmanship Moments from the Tokyo Olympics (in reverse order).   10th Best Sportsmanship Moment:  … Read more

World Cup Fever Brings Joy Back To The Beautiful Game

The World Cup Trophy

2018 Russia. 32 of the world’s best footballing teams & fans are mixing it up, in a great celebration of the brotherhood of football. It is a celebration of nations,  great fun, great drama and great fun. Belgian Refuses Penalty Against Tunisia Fans respect  Lukaku after ‘admirable’ act of sportsmanship when the honest Belgian forward showed great … Read more

6 Nations 2018 Championship – Friendship, Honour, Respect & A Lot of Fun

Ireland v Wales was an extraordinarily exciting game of rugby

The 2018 6 Nations Rugby was an exciting contest full of  great rugby and wonderful sportsmanship moments. Here’s a few…… Fans Have Fun I am in Dublin for the Ireland v Wales 6 Nations match. It’s a big game. Two exciting teams. Both with a point to prove. As I walk down to Lansdowne Road’s Aviva … Read more

London Marathon, Maori All Blacks, Racing 92, Rose v Garcia – BBC Radio Interview PR Smith May 2013

AB Maori's Present shirt with Munster coach's initials

Recent sportsmanship moments are discussed live on BBC radio across the UK. Georgey Spanswick chats with PR Smith about some recent amazing sportsmanship moments including the London Marathon, the Maori All Blacks &  Racing Club 92 ‘s incredible gestures to Munster Rugby, &  of course, that incredible competitive friendship displayed during that final round of … Read more

French Racing RFC Fans Open Their Homes To Munster Fans

Munster Team with Racing Club Crest

French rugby club Racing 92 has stunned their opposition fans from the Irish province of Munster by opening their homes up and inviting the opposition fans to stay in the Racing fans’ homes.  The original game, scheduled for last October, was immediately postponed upon the sudden and shocking news of the death of the Munster Head … Read more

Top 10 Sportsmanship Moments From Rio 2016

The Olympic Flag

Here are our Top 10 Great Sportsmanship moments from Rio 2016. It really was difficult to choose the Top 10 and , in particular, the number 1 moment of sportsmanship from the many sportsmanship moments we posted on social media (facebook and instagram) each day. So here’s the list in reverse order. 10. Haitian Hurdler Never Gives Up … Read more

Euro 2016 New Friends Amongst The Brotherhood of Football

Irish fans dance with Swedish fans

Euro 2016 Football Fans Make Friends Euro 2016 is great fun.   Despite what the media may portray, there are far more fans that prefer to have fun than fights. Here’s some Irish and Swedish fans having the ‘craic’ (Irish word for fun).       This French Man Wrote The Most Incredible Open Letter … Read more

FA Chairman, Post-Paris, Confirms Nelson Mandela’s Vision: ‘Sport Can Change The World’

FA Chairman, Greg Dyke

Speaking passionately post-Paris terrorist attacks, at the Middlesex Wanderers AFC dinner, FA Chairman, Greg Dyke, spoke about a picture painting a thousand words and the power of the images of French and English players arm-in-arm singing the French national anthem with the Wembley arch lit up in red, white and blue. A spirit of solidarity … Read more