{"id":19746,"date":"2011-12-14T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=19746"},"modified":"2011-12-14T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T10:03:26","slug":"review-great-christmas-stocking-fillers-matt-dawson%e2%80%99s-rip-roaring-rugby-robbie-savage-football-howlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/review-great-christmas-stocking-fillers-matt-dawson%e2%80%99s-rip-roaring-rugby-robbie-savage-football-howlers\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Great Christmas Stocking Fillers: MATT DAWSON\u2019S RIP ROARING RUGBY & ROBBIE SAVAGE FOOTBALL HOWLERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

MATT DAWSON\u2019S
\nRIP ROARING RUGBY<\/strong><\/p>\n

DVD released through Revolver Entertainment on Monday 21 November 2011 <\/p>\n

England Rugby World Cup winner, national sporting hero and top TV star, Matt Dawson, presents an action-packed collection of rugby\u2019s greatest ever players and most memorable moments in \u2018Matt Dawson\u2019s Rip Roaring Rugby\u2019 \u2013 THE definitive DVD stocking-filler gift for rugby fans this Christmas. <\/p>\n

Filmed in the iconic Twickenham stadium, home of English rugby and where the first game was played over 100 years ago in 1909, Matt Dawson relives the sport\u2019s tastiest tries, toughest tackles, best-ever players and greatest games in an hour-long DVD that no rugby fan will want to miss! Packed full of action from the Premiership and top international matches, including England victories in epic battles with Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, this is 2011\u2019s most scrum-ptious DVD, which is guaranteed to get your chariot swinging low and keep you on the edge of your seat for the duration.
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\nAmongst the host of clips featured on the DVD are the best bits of individual and team skill the game has ever witnessed, such as Chris Ashton\u2019s wonder against Australia \u2013 considered perhaps the best try ever scored at Twickenham. Plus there\u2019s a recap of the sheer class of Carlos Spencer in an epic England Vs Barbarians game, when a thrilling Barbarians move is finished after his deft dummy.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a chance to relive England Vs South Africa in 2002 when the Home Nations side made it a hat-trick of wins over the southern hemisphere superpowers. Do not miss the chance to see some of the game\u2019s goofiest gaffes, including Gloucester’s Mike Tindall royally messing up when he inexplicably gives the ball away and there\u2019s also tough tackles, like the crunching clip of Springbok AJ Venter poll-axing England\u2019s Jason Robinson in one of the biggest hits ever felt in rugby.<\/p>\n

Known for his quick-witted wisecracks and astute sporting knowledge as current team captain on long-running hit BBC ONE TV show \u2018A Question of Sport\u2019, Matt Dawson adds to the excitement of the DVD by revealing exclusive anecdotes from his own rugby career at the top of English game. Dawson himself spent more than 15 years with Northampton, Wasps, England and the British and Irish Lions amidst the mud, blood and sweat of a rugby pitch.<\/p>\n

Matt Dawson says: \u201cRugby is all about the darting runs, the swallow dives, driving through bodies with seconds to spare…and I\u2019m not talking about the rush for last orders at the bar, but tries. It doesn\u2019t matter how it\u2019s done; sometimes they\u2019re a fluke, or a jumbled mess, but every so often, just like these featured on the DVD, they are spectacular!\u201d<\/p>\n

ROBBIE SAVAGE
\nFOOTBALL HOWLERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join football\u2019s voice of the fans and star TV pundit, Robbie Savage, for THE football DVD of the year!<\/p>\n

DVD released through Revolver Entertainment on Monday 21 November 2011 <\/p>\n

Footballer, award-winning radio presenter and star of BBC\u2019s Strictly Come Dancing, Robbie Savage, presents \u2018Robbie Savage: Football Howlers\u2019, the hilarious new DVD featuring the craziest cock-ups, goofiest gaffes and most memorable moments of the beautiful \u2013 and occasionally ridiculous \u2013 game. Presented in Robbie\u2019s trademark no-nonsense style, this year\u2019s hottest Christmas DVD stocking-filler for footie fans has got it all: from breath-taking blunders and nightmare misses to cack-handed goalkeepers and players going bonkers. Never short of an opinion, Robbie adds to the entertainment as he comes to terms with how the pros sometimes get it so wrong! Full of action from today\u2019s star players and top teams,\u2018Robbie Savage: Football Howlers\u2019 is THE football DVD of the year! <\/p>\n

Robbie Savage says: \u201cIt\u2019s great to have my own DVD. I mean I\u2019ve won awards as a player and a presenter, I\u2019ve played for Wales, captained Derby. But it isn\u2019t until you get your own football bloopers DVD that you feel like you\u2019ve really made it!\u201d<\/p>\n

Robbie Savage is the man of the moment; footballer, TV personality and award-winning radio presenter, with a loyal fan base that includes nearly 500,000 Twitter followers. Love him or hate him Robbie is football’s \u2018Mr Marmite\u2019. The tenacious midfielder hung up his boots at the end of the 2010\/11 season after making over 600 appearances for Derby County, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, Leicester City, Crewe Alexandra and Brighton and Hove Albion and is currently in the top 50 most capped Premier League players of all time. Highly regarded as one of football\u2019s most colourful characters, Robbie is famous for his no-nonsense approach on the field and is the current record holder of most Premier League yellow cards, having picked up 89 in during his time playing in the league.<\/p>\n

Off the pitch, Robbie has quickly established himself as one of Britain’s favourite media pundits and recently won the Sony DAB Rising Star Award for his work on BBC Radio 5 Live\u2019s 6-0-6 programme. More recently Robbie joined the star-studded line-up of BBC\u2019s Strictly Come Dancing for what promises to be the most entertaining series yet. Robbie Savage hit the jackpot when he was partnered up with professional dancer and 2009 champion Ola Jordan and the pair has already proved to be a hit with both the judges and the show\u2019s audience. Born in Wrexham on the 18th of October 1974, Robbie joined Manchester United as a trainee. A devoted family man, Robbie has two sons with wife Sarah. Robbie regularly makes appearances as a football pundit on both TV and radio for the BBC and ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MATT DAWSON\u2019S RIP ROARING RUGBY DVD released through Revolver Entertainment on Monday 21 November 2011 England Rugby World Cup winner, national sporting hero and top TV star, Matt Dawson, presents an action-packed collection of rugby\u2019s greatest ever players and most memorable moments in \u2018Matt Dawson\u2019s Rip Roaring Rugby\u2019 \u2013 THE definitive DVD stocking-filler gift for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7831,8196,8195,6037,5962,8201,7392,5632,8197,8198,8199,3959,8200,8194],"class_list":["post-19746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-christmas","tag-dawsons","tag-fillers","tag-football","tag-great","tag-howlers","tag-matt","tag-review","tag-rip","tag-roaring","tag-robbie","tag-rugby","tag-savage","tag-stocking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19748,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19746\/revisions\/19748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}