Hayden Meikle

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">   </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> Manuel De Los Santos, of the Dominican Republic, places his ball on the 18th tee during the final practice round of The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at The Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland, on Thursday. De Los Santos, who negotiates the golf course on crutches, plays off a three handicap and is one of 168 amateurs contesting this weekend's links championship. Photo by Getty Images. </p> Domestic rugby . . . The national rugby championship was never a competition that required much thought. Three divisions, automatic promotion and relegation - simple. The first sign of trouble came when the New Zealand Rugby Union decided it wasn't fair for the bottom team in the first division to drop straight down.

Strikers and cliches go hand in hand in football, just like Joey Barton and trouble, Eduardo and diving, Sir Alex Ferguson and ranting, Liverpool and success. A good striker is "worth his weight in gold". The best frontmen "know how to find the back of the net''.