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
Shelford Rugby Club Shelford Rugby Club Shelford Rugby Club is an English rugby union football club based in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire. The club are currently played in London & South East Premier - the fifth tier of the English rugby union league system. They have reached as high a level as the fourth tier (National League 2 South), playing in this division between 2009 and 2015 when they were eventually relegated, having finished in 15th place. Shelford run five senior sides, a ladies team and twelve junior teams. Shelford Rugby Club was formed in 1933 following the formation of a rugby section of