1997 Five Nations Championship 1997 Five Nations Championship The 1997 Five Nations Championship was the sixty-eighth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the hundred-and-third series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played over five weekends from 18 January to 15 March, the crucial match being in Weekend 4 where England inexplicably threw away a 20-6 lead at Twickenham with quarter of the match to go and were pipped by France. France went on to win their first Grand Slam in ten years; England defeated the
2018 Women's Six Nations Championship 2018 Women's Six Nations Championship The 2018 Women's Six Nations Championship, also known as the 2018 RBS Women's Six Nations sponsored by Royal Bank of Scotland, is the 16th series of the Women's Six Nations Championship, an annual women's rugby union competition between six European rugby union national teams. Matches are being held in February and March 2018, on the same weekends as the men's tournament, if not always the same day. As in the 2017 tournament, the 2018 tournament is using the rugby union bonus points system common to other professional tournaments: "As well as the standard four points