The rain had poured down for hours and it certainly was not a day for Running Rugby. London Nigerian, a side that is traditionally at its weakest in the heart of winter – something to do with fleet-footed West Africans “not liking the cold” and finding the boggy conditions ill-suited to their high-tempo attacking game [...]
An opening 10 minutes, where a combination of the elements, a half awake Nigerian team and a Hungarian referee with very little understanding of the rules ultimately proved Nigerian’s downfall against a well drilled Imperial Medicals. The game on Saturday saw the RFU experiment with a referee exchange and a very affable Hungarian chap take [...]
London Nigerian travelled the short distance to Twyford Avenue on Saturday to play local rivals and fellow exiles London New Zealand in a game which saw the mercurial Nigerians take on a clinical guise and ease to victory by 31 points to 12 without ever looking too stretched. The scrum again proved to be [...]
When these sides met early in the season, Nigerian dominated proceedings for much of the first half without managing to trouble the scoreboard. A series of shocking defensive lapses in the 20 minutes that straddled the half time break saw Harpenden rack up 20 points against just 5 for the visitors. Thanks to their disciplined [...]
Another Nigerian performance that scored high on effort but lacked for coolheaded precision in the execution of the game plan. The thinness of this Nigerian squad was also painfully revealed – exactly 3 weeks after putting out 2 sides with over 40 players (& x-playas), the home team found itself scrambling around on the Friday [...]
“We put in enough effort to win but you need composure to finish it off and we didn’t quite have that.” The words of Martin Johnson summing up his side’s loss to Wales in Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium on Saturday. Johnno may as well have been talking about London Nigerian whose loss at St Albans inspired [...]
In their 2nd away victory, Nigerian completed their first “double” of the season lifting themselves off the foot of the league table and a step closer to safety. The hosts were coming off the back of a heavy defeat by league leaders Harpenden – next week’s guests at the Linford Christie Sports Centre – and [...]
It was not a great day at the office for London Nigerian as they came up against a focussed and committed Tabard outfit that bore no relation to the team comfortably disposed of last season. 4 tries and a succession of penalties from Tabard’s impressive kicker toward the end of the 2nd half compounded the [...]
At last, the Naija Boys of White City got their London Division 3 season on the road with a gutsy and almost cold-blooded victory. Guilty of naivety and over-ebaloration in their previous games, this time out Nigerian showed a greater directness in attack and just a little more “dog” in defence. They began strongly, Jemi [...]
A second defeat in succession - away at Harpenden – disabused London Nigerian of any notion that navigating the way through (and up out) of London 3 North West would be akin to a Sunday afternoon stroll through Regents Park. On this evidence, securing promotion will bear greater semblance to an SAS training hike through Snowdonia. [...]
The London Nigerian Rugby Football Club (LNRFC) was formed in 1991 by a group of Nigerian friends who had learned their rugby mainly in English schools. The club started competing in league rugby in 1992 and has been promoted regularly since. LNRFC is a small, friendly club, but those who come can be sure of a big welcome, as well as the unique sight of Nigerian traditions combining with English sport.
- "The 4th Annual Carl Christian Memorial Day on Saturday at the Linford Christie Stadium - see you there 2010-01-19"
