Mark Reason
The voice of reason
About Mark Reason
Mark Reason has been a sports journalist for over 25 years. He currently works for Fairfax Media and will also be part of the Telegraph’s World Cup team and a regular panellist on Radio New Zealand during the World Cup.
He has covered every Rugby World Cup since 1991, the 2000 and 2008 Olympics, over 40 golf major championships, the FA Cup final, the Epsom Derby and a lot of other stuff he can’t remember. Mark emigrated to New Zealand in 2010 having spent over 20 years covering sport for the Telegraph and Sunday Times in Britain.
Mark Reason's latest articles
Mark Reason listens to Sir Colin Meads and the ambitions of the top English and French clubs and wonders if rugby has...
Mark Reason argues that French clubs have long been in breach of IRB regulations and the only solution is to chuck Fr...
Mark Reason says that Joel Jutge must tell his refs to start applying the laws governing foul play or top level rugby...
Mark Reason laments the loss of the larrikin in Australian rugby and hopes that he is not gone forever.
Scotland’s shock defeat of Australia has Mark Reason waxing lyrical about the skillful delight of wet weather rugby
It will need a few more All Black injuries to justify Ireland’s increasing optimism about their chances against New Z...
Mark Reason hates the bonus point system and says it creates manifestly unjust outcomes at the end of the season whic...
Players get dropped after a sequence of bad games, but Bryce Lawrence carries on like a man who would have to fail a ...
Mark Reason examines how influential the restart was at the weekend’s Super 15 and reckons the influence of Aussie Ru...
Jimmy Cowan will be a folk hero down Gloucester way but just what sort of value will he bring to English rugby.