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
Knox Rugby Club 2005 and 2009. Two Knox players became Chairman of the Australian Rugby Union; Ross Turnbull and David Clark. <nowiki>*</nowiki>Denotes joint premiership with Waverley. Knox Rugby Club The Knox Rugby Club, formerly known as Knox Old Boys RUFC, is a rugby union football club which plays in Division One of the New South Wales Suburban Rugby Union and is based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The club has won the Kentwell Cup, among other trophies. The club was founded by and is associated with the ex-students association of Knox Grammar School, a Uniting Church day and boarding school for boys,