Three things you didn't know about rugby.

Hello you beautiful charmers. Today the SOTW is Leigh Halfpenny. Why, you ask? WELL LET ME TELL YOU. He just scored against Ireland in the last 30 seconds of the Wales-Ireland match in the Six Nations Rugby Tourny. Which means Wales won. Thanks to him.

If you're as hopelessly ignorant about rugby as I am, let me tell you what I learned about the brilliant sport this afternoon: if you cheat you get chucked into the Sin Bin, if you win you are national hero, and if you lose you cry. Sometimes you cry if you win too. Also the announcers are both witty and insulting (why insults in an accent are somehow more witty escapes me), and do things like charmingly describe the pitch (completely unbiased, of course):

 "There is no snow in Dublin on account of Ireland being a winter-less, summer-less rock in the Atlantic where the people reside in a permanent state of anything-could-happen-at-any-minute readiness in fear of something which is commonly known as 'the weather'." 

That is about all I know.