Fergus Ryan

Eddie Jones’s team face the world champion All Blacks next weekend

South Africa outmuscled, out-thought and outplayed England to confound the pundits and win their third Rugby World Cup 32-12 in Yokohama on Saturday. Siya Kolisi, the first black man to captain the Springboks and lift the World Cup, paid tribute to his multiracial team and told the capacity crowd that anything was possible if people from different backgrounds and races worked together. After playing smart, aggressive rugby to suffocate defending champions New Zealand in the semi-finals last we…

Perceived lack of meaningful competition threatens traditional five-day contest

This article is part of a guide to Hong Kong from FT Globetrotter To play golf regularly in Hong Kong requires deep pockets, impeccable social connections and luck. There are, after all, only eight clubs in the Chinese territory and not all accept visitors. One of the courses guards its members’ privacy so assiduously that it was prepared to let me play a round as long as I did not write about it. Even by Hong Kong’s extortionate prices, joining fees at many of the clubs are eye-watering. A n…

Russia uprising updates from June 24: Wagner agrees deal to end armed uprising, Warlord Prigozhin to leave Russia for Belarus

This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to Vancouver Locals claim that there is no such thing as winter in Victoria, British Columbia’s island capital. Canadians picking ice off their eyelashes in the rest of the country might agree, but winters on the southern tip of Vancouver Island are nonetheless long and gloomy and wet. Despite the dreary weather, there is winter golf. It’s not particularly pleasant but the diehards can still venture out on to the muddy fairways. Vancouver Island’…