Nick Heath
@nickheathsport
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Commentator | Chair of @RUWCOfficial. Now on Bluesky. Link in bio, amusingly. Co-founder @prideintouch. Will say hello to all dogs. He/him 🏳️🌈
Joined October 2009
As a gay rugby commentator, I’ve had enough of God-fearing athletes telling me I need to repent for my sins. 🏳️🌈
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Sure. Normal week really. A bit of self-isolation from a worldwide pandemic, 50,000 extra Twitter followers, over 2 million video views and a write up in the @nytimes. As you do. #LifeCommentary .
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So if you go more viral than Covid-19, you get 30,000+ followers in two days. My new followers are gonna be well bored when I go back to commentating on English club rugby. 🤭.
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If true, Casillas & Puyol have riled up an immense amount of homophobia with a tweet saying he’s gay and it won’t just be him or the Spanish media who pay the price. Immensely damaging to those who may have needed that role model but will now only see pages and pages of hate.
According to AS, Casillas and Puyol were just being sarcastic after the gossip on Casillas girlfriends. Ouch….
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Catch like a girl. 💥.
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Find A Brunette A Seat With The Blonde Girls Qualifier. #LiveCommentary #LifeCommentary . Getting tenuous now.
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The RFU Council will next week vote on a change to its Gender Participation Policy which is set to ban trans players. This change will question the claim that rugby is a game for everyone. My thoughts to help educate. Replies off to avoid anti-trans pile on. Be considerate. 🧵.
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Oh. Oh wow. My mates have a fantasy football league. The season loser has to do a forfeit, chosen by the winner. Chris was made to do this. 😂😂 👏🏻
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Two million now for the wonderful Ilona Maher. That’s a million additional followers in five days. 🤯
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When the gay rugby club chairman looks straighter than the LGBT ally. Super work @KXSteelers and @jameshaskell. #prideinlondon . ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜. #glitterballs #party #rainbow #pride
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You know how it's okay not to be okay? I cracked the glass on a picture I was hanging an hour ago. The disproportionate meltdown that ensued tells me I might be finding lockdown harder than I'm letting myself believe. The sun's come out. Must breathe. Play music. Calm. Onward.
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When someone says, “20 years ago” I still think of about 1986.
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So, I’ve been messaged by “Karen” who is actually Poppy and her dog “Ginger” who is in fact, Lady. Hoping Poppy saw the funny side, I was very touched to receive the following, which was rather lovely. 🐶 ❤️
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So proud of @England. Southgate talked of representation. From the diversity of the players and their backgrounds to those wearing rainbow laces in the #Euro2020Final. Proud.
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My thanks to @gregjames for sharing this idiocy on @BBCR1 this morning. 😂. Are you a fan of #LifeCommentary? I thought you were. Big love x.
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Ruby Tui is a Rugby World Cup champion. I think everyone’s okay with that, whoever you support.
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Do you think there’ll come a day in years to come when someone will say the ingredient ‘basil’ and no one in earshot will immediately do a Sybil Fawlty impression? . That’ll be a sad day.
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On my way to the supermarket, look who I bumped into. The Spaniel Speedway stars themselves. ❤️🐶
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I’m musing, no doubt foolishly. Folau said it’ll be God’s will if it means his rugby career is over. He’s then reportedly hired a hotshot sports lawyer to fight his case against Rugby Australia. Riiight. #GodsWillLLP
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This is incredible. 👏🏻.
Landon Donovan on why the team decided to forfeit tonight's match against Phoenix Rising FC. #SDvPHX
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Up late, having a moment. I truly can’t quite fathom the last few weeks and how there’s a twice weekly pub quiz with its own amazing community, a 30-video strong series of utterly silly commentary, its own stash and a social following that is bonkers. Thank you everyone 🙏🏻❤️🏳️🌈
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There are clips popping up on socials of @SiyaKolisi speaking with seemingly every TV station in the Stade de France last night. He tailors his message to each broadcaster and territory with subtle but important detail. What a brilliant, inspiring human. 🌟
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Young at heart. Message just now from my 78 year old Dad who lives on his own. 😃
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Speed of yellow card at one end might be seen as a touch inconsistent with the other.
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Amazing mid-sentence correction from George Ford on the Farrell verdict just now on @bbc5live:. Ford: “It’s great for us in terms of having our captain and leader back in, and getting away with… (breath) obviously going through the process and cracking on as normal.”.
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This is brilliant. Bring it to the bigots, the fascists and the racists. Love must drown them out. #LoveIsLove #YouClapForMeNow #wewillremember.
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The Irish have descended on Paris because the opportunity… well, you know…
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Wigan Warriors follow Quins in rugby union by announcing a Pride Day match on March 22nd. Their opponents?. Catalan Dragons. All this in the space of a few minutes. Looks like I'm going to my first rugby league match.
🏳️🌈 @WiganWarriorsRL can confirm that their round six game against @DragonsOfficiel on Sunday 22nd March will now be Pride Day, as the Warriors look support the LGBTQ+ community. Learn more 👇.
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I always liked the idea of 'Inside The Commentary Box' where there's an accidental symmetry between what's happening inside to what's happening outside. #LifeCommentary
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Marler to Owens: “Blow for full time, blow for full time!”. Owens: “You tired?”. Marler: “Knackered.”.
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“Well, you join me live at the AJ Bell Stadium as Sale Sharks run out aiming for this top four finish, handing debuts to 51 year old Alan Watson, neighbour of Steve Diamond and part-time decorator, plus 11 year old Suzie Dickson at prop, her Mum works in the ticket office.”.
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There's a women's Rugby World Cup final this Saturday. A huge and positive moment. In the past few months we've seen some pro men's clubs go under, players losing jobs. Yet still much of the men's game ignores its sisters. Beggars belief. A rising tide lifts all boats.
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I always liked the idea of 'Inside The Commentary Box' where there's an accidental symmetry between what's happening inside to what's happening outside. Here's another one. #LifeCommentary
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New followers are fab but these are the messages that have been so lovely to receive.
@nickheathsport Was feeling pretty low today with everything going on and stumbled across your #LifeCommentary videos. Just wanted to say thank you for lifting my spirits. Used to live in Tooting, my folks still there. The 'crossing dash' really made me laugh so thank you :).
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Following two seasons of work with @Channel4 on European club rugby, I'll be on lead comms for their live coverage of this summer's @EnglandRugby international matches against @USARugby and @RugbyCanada plus Eng A v Sco A to kick it all off. Which is nice.
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Ready to go in the @Harlequins members bar to a Q&A on LGBTQ+ matters in rugby and beyond. Delighted to be part of @premrugby’s first ever #PrideGame.
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We came. We were seen. We were heard. We’re just humans who love other humans. Even the best religious folk know that. #thefirstpridemarchwasariot
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So good.
The way Pablo Matera 🇦🇷 looks at a HAKA is the same way I look at a Rotisserie Chicken. #TriNations2020
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Apologies world. It appears 0.002% of the UK population has installed the sort of leader who probably thinks chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
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Trans women are women. If you are picturing someone trying to gain some underhand, unfair advantage then you may need to reconsider that mental image. Trans people are like each of us. They want to play sport, enjoy its benefits and be just as crap as the rest of us!.
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Stunningly spoken. The emotional sigh at the end stopping me in my tracks.
"Until we educate the entire human race, this thing will not stop." . Michael Holding delivers a powerful message, explaining why #BlackLivesMatter.
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The WRU announce professional playing contracts for 25 women's players for the first time in its history. There will be up to 10 professional contracts and up to 15 retainer contracts. In addition, there will be match and training fees. No doubt more from a press conf at 14:30.
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Bravo. 👏🏻.
Major love and respect to the Polish MP’s who co-ordinated their outfits to create a rainbow flag at the swearing in for their homophobic president Andrzej Duda 🏳️🌈
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Not even a penalty.
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Grateful to those that within two mins of me setting this up, after these videos have entertained y'all, have 'bought me a coffee'. Gorgeous folk, the lot of you. Now even silly commentary helps pay the mortgage!.
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This is just. wow.
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“Yeah, might just um, head back in. No, no reasooooon.”.
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Tear in my eye tells me I was more invested in these Red Roses than even I realised. Spent a lot of time with those players and I’m truly gutted for them and everything they’ve invested. Hats off to the hosts. An incredible journey under Wayne Smith. Congrats to them.
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If anyone needs their dog walk, banana bread-making or hoovering reported on, I've just had four rugby commentary matches cancelled over the next fortnight.
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Don’t believe that’s foul play. It’s a reflex to stop himself being clattered by Keenan, for me. Feel for Steward.
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After the @spicegirls played the Principality Stadium, the bants have kicked off between @IrishRugby @WelshRugbyUnion and @Scotlandteam.
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£12m and counting. Incredible. Can’t stop the tears flowing watching Captain Tom Moore receive his plaudits and enjoy You’ll Never Walk Alone sung by his favourite singer. Of this challenging time, Captain Moore said, “The sun will shine again and the clouds will go away.” ❤️
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As Eddie Jones gets set to bring up his 50th Test in charge of @EnglandRugby, here's a look back at what he said to me at his first presser four years ago. Join me and @TomMay1 for our last episode of @TheRugbyReport_ out now:.
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One of my favourite ever moments in rugby.
Two great @EnglandRugby fly-halves, one moment of great respect. @JonnyWilkinson & @owen_faz created their own moment to remember in the 2013 @ChampionsCup semi-finals. #C4rugby
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