Cardiff, Wales, UK / October 2015 –

In honour of the Rugby World Cup Final approaching, Saturday, October 31st, I thought it appropriate to include this iconic art installation.

When I was in Paris in 2007 for that world cup, I was awed one night while looking out a taxi window to see a giant rugby ball, all lit up and dangling underneath the Eifel Tower. However, I must congratulate the artists who created this crashed ball spectacle. Its visual impact is just as powerful but with more imagination.

This ball was buried into the wall of the Cardiff Castle and was attracting thousands of people before the game and hundreds of thousands over the course of the tournament. I had tickets to see Ireland vs France that day and it truly was a sea of green (considering Cardiff’s proximity to Ireland). Ireland won the game at Milliennium Stadium, to top their pool and enter into the quarter finals.

The final will be featuring the New Zealand All Blacks versus the Australian Wallabies. It’ll be a cracker of a game.

The motto of the Rugby World Cup is – “The World in Union”. I have to say it certainly was and still is.