Rugger stars are so cool

I AM not a sports fan at all. So it is a constant battle in our house when my husband wants to watch football or rugby.

A few weeks ago he proclaimed that it was imperative that he watch the France-Italy rugby game.

With no choice, I sat down beside him and read a magazine, while glancing now and again at the screen.

I was soon drawn in, not by the game but by the bunch of supermodels on the team. Bar a few, they could have walked straight out of a Calvin Klein ad.

The rugby pitch is a catwalk in disguise. I was quickly becoming a rugby fan. Forget about Replica Gucci Watch the rules, turn down the sound and put on some funky music and this is a great spectator sport.

Yachvili, Michalak, Pelous - what perfect specimens. How could they all be so good-looking and talented?

Maybe this is the way in all field sports. Maybe I could actually enjoy watching football and hurling as well.

So the next day when John decided that we had to watch a club- hurling match, I was up for it.

As the players ran on to the field I watched like a model scout to pick out those perfect jaw lines and six packs but I was disappointed.

What met my gaze was a bunch of lilywhite legs and rosy cheeks. This was a whole different ball game.

These guys were definitely picked for their skills with the hurley. They didn't ooze that continental panache and sexiness.

And their fashion sense was all wrong.

Rugby players wear Alain Silberstein Watch really cool jerseys with collars, which effortlessly stand up. Their shorts are crisp cotton not like those clingy, shiny polyester things that GAA players wear.

It helps that the French and Italians have perma-tans, which makes every muscle in their legs glow.

Maybe GAA players should invest in a bottle of fake tan or a few sunbed sessions and get Donatella Versace to design some new gear.

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