2000s (decade) organized in France. Bloodgate is the nickname for a rugby union scandal involving the English team Harlequins in their Heineken Cup match against the Irish side Leinster on 12 April 2009. It was so called because of the use of fake blood capsules, and has been seen by some as one of the biggest scandals in rugby since professionalisation in the mid-1990s, indeed even as an argument against the professional ethos. The name is a pun on Watergate. The New York Yankees won the first Major League Baseball World Series of the decade in 2000, as well as the last
2009 June rugby union tests for a return match with the "Pumas", while Ireland and Wales went to North America. The first England-Argentina matchup was notable because the Argentine Rugby Union moved the game to England in effort to raise cash to help support their fledgling professional setup; the move was also convenient for their large contingent of European-based players. Argentina also played a match with the touring French Barbarians; while it was not an official Test, the "Pumas" fielded a mostly first-choice side. Notes: 2009 June rugby union tests The 2009 mid-year rugby union tests (also known as the Summer Internationals in the Northern