The Middlesex Sevens was a Rugby Sevens tournament held annually at Twickenham stadium in London , England until 2011. It was first held in 1926, and started by Dr J.A. Russell-Cargill, a London-based Scot. The event was held at the end of the rugby union season in May every year for 75 years, but moved to August in 2001 due to lack of available stadium dates and players in May. The Middlesex Sevens tournament was last played in 2011, as the new Premiership Rugby 7s Series caused many of the top clubs that previously took part to pull out.
6-597: This tournament was a charitable event, officially called the Middlesex Charity Sevens, with the beneficiaries being Wooden Spoon and the RFU Injured Players Fund. Middlesex Charity Sevens raised over £10 million for charities. Traditionally the Middlesex Sevens was an invitation tournament with entertainment derived from overseas and qualifying sides challenging rugby union's top teams. In 2005
12-512: The Middlesex Sevens: firstly Wigan , who brought a star-studded team including Offiah, Shaun Edwards , Andy Farrell , Tuigamala and a young Jason Robinson to Twickenham in 1996 as a tune-up before the union leg of their historic Clash of the Codes series against Bath. Wigan were joined on the honours list by Bradford Bulls , champions in 2002. The Women's Middlesex 7s was introduced in 2011,
18-520: The final year of the tournament, and was won by Wooden Spoon Women. Wooden Spoon Society Wooden Spoon is the children’s charity of rugby . It supports children and young people with disabilities or living in disadvantage in the United Kingdom and Ireland . Since 1983, Wooden Spoon has committed more than £29 million to more than 1,300 projects, supporting over 1.4 million disabled and disadvantaged children and young people. Wooden Spoon
24-664: The gift, the England fans decided to hold a golf match to see who would keep the wooden spoon. When the golf match was held £8,450 was raised and the money was used to provide a new minibus for a local special needs school, Park School. The life president, Peter Scott, is one of the founders. He was awarded the MBE for services to charity in 2002. Wooden Spoon's focus is on supporting children and young people through projects such as sensory rooms, playground and outdoor activities, health and wellbeing and specialist equipment. Projects include: HITZ
30-453: The tournament became a twelve team competition with only Rugby Premiership teams participating. In 2008 the tournament reverted to sixteen teams. The 2010 final was played between London Irish, who fielded three Armitage brothers, and ULR Samurai with a strong international contingent. Brazil was amongst the teams invited to take part in the 2011 tournament. The final was played between Esher RFC and Samurai. Two rugby league clubs have won
36-527: Was founded in 1983 after five England rugby supporters went to Dublin to watch England in the final game of the Five Nations Championship against the Irish. The game was lost 25–15 and England finished last in the table with just a single point gained from their draw against Wales. After the match, in a Dublin bar, five England supporters were presented with a wooden spoon by their Irish friends. Accepting
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