Chris Ashton and Richard Wigglesworth sign new Leicester deals
Wing Chris Ashton and scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth have agreed new deals with Gallagher Premiership leaders Leicester.
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Richard Wigglesworth says fired-up Leicester ‘have to attack’ Clermont
Richard Wigglesworth batted away suggestions that his Leicester Tigers teammates must safeguard against complacency before their Champions Cup match against Clermont on Saturday. After a famous 29-10 win in France in the first leg last weekend, they are all but assured of a place in the last eight of Europe’s premier competition.
Richard Wigglesworth insists complacency will not be an issue for Leicester
Richard Wigglesworth has dismissed any notion of complacency as Leicester close in on the Heineken Champions Cup quarter-finals.
Champions Cup: Five takeaways from Round-of-16 first legs as Ulster beat holders Toulouse
Following the opening legs of the round-of-16 clashes played across Europe, here’s our five takeaways from a memorable Champions Cup weekend.
Ford or Burns? We select our Leicester Tigers team to face Exeter Chiefs
Leicester Tigers will be back in Gallagher Premiership action this weekend against Exeter Chiefs.
How Ben Youngs became England’s ‘squadfather’ on verge of caps record
When Ben Youngs got married, in 2015, his best man, Tom Croft, pulled together a collection of his favourite things Youngs had come out with in the years they’d been playing together and published them in a book called … Stuff Ben Said. There was the time Youngs asked if Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger “were really twins”, when he said he “had only just learned he had two lungs”, asked whether the “place with all the stone heads was called Easter Egg Island” and the one when he called his brother Tom to ask why his stew was so dry. “Did you add stock?” Tom asked: “Yes, two cubes.” “And did you add water to the cubes?” Pause. “Do I need to?”
Leicester’s Freddie Burns ensures Tigers survive scare from battling Bath
In this memorable battle of top against bottom, it was mostly unclear which Premiership team was which. Bath were eventually defeated in the Tigers’ second success in 12 league visits to the home of their great rivals.
Premiership: Bath 20-24 Leicester Tigers - leaders end 11-year losing run in Bath
League leaders Leicester ended an 11-year losing streak at the Recreation Ground with a narrow win over spirited bottom-of-the-table side Bath.