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I'm not sure what Egon Ronay is on about to be honest

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I'm not sure what Egon Ronay is on about to be honest."For a £12.50 main course at The Farm you can eat loin of venison, sirloin steak or slow-braised lamb.But Andrew Parle, the head chef at the Walpole Arms in Itteringham, Norfolk, an acclaimed gastropub, said he understood Mr Ronay's concerns.Mr Parle, 39, who worked in one of the first gastropubs to open in London, said: "He is probably right. Egon Ronay recently celebrated British gastropubs by comparing their food and service favourably with more expensive restaurants and claiming that they were often better than traditional French bistros. He even defended British cuisine against the acerbic opinions of France's President Jacques Chirac, and flew the flag for British mutton, still an unfashionable cut of meat. But now, only a few weeks after praising them, the doyen of food critics has criticised gastropubs for being too expensive."One can only hope a resulting but ultimately counter-productive temptation to raise prices will be resisted. Northampton: Try Myring; Penalties Reihana 3Sale: J Robinson (capt); M Cueto, M Taylor (B Foden, 70), R Todd, C Mayor; C Hodgson, V Courrent (R Wigglesworth, h-t); A Sheridan, A Titterrell (S Bruno, 62), B Stewart (S Turner, 53), I Fernandez Lobbe, C Jones (C Day, 62), J White, M Lund, S Chabal (N Bonner Evans, 62)Northampton: B Reihana (capt); J Rudd, J Clarke, R Davies ( Vilk, 79), P Diggin; L Myring, J Howard (M Robinson, 62); T Smith, D Richmond (D Hartley, 56), P Barnard (C Budgen, 3), M Lord (A Rae, 75), D Browne, B Lewitt, D Fox (S Harding, 61), D Browne (M Easter, 75).Referee: D Pearson (Northumberland).. Luke Myring then scrambled over the whitewash, but Reihana's conversion attempt came back off an upright.S?stien Bruno claimed Sale's third touchdown, with a conversion and a fifth penalty by Hodgson rounding off an emphatic victory.Sale: Tries Mayor, Fernandez Lobbe, Bruno; Conversions Hodgson 2; Penalties Hodgson 5.

When Damien Browne was shown a yellow card for a similar offence, the Sale forwards drove Ignacio Fernandez Lobbe across for a try which Hodgson converted. Bruce Reihana cut that by six points with two penalties and added another before the break, as did Hodgson, to reach the interval at 17-9.By then, Sale had lost Robert Todd to the sin-bin for persistent infringing at the breakdown, although while he was in the cooler, Northampton had only Reihana's third penalty to show for their advantage. They were soon running hot, scoring at a point a minute, and it looked as if Northampton would have to call out the brigade. Charlie Hodgson began with a warm-up penalty, before delivering an inch-perfect cross-kick, which Chris Mayor took at full tilt for a terrific try Hodgson banged over two more penalties to make it 14-0. The club's owner, Brian Kennedy, launched a broadside at the Rugby Football Union last week, claiming that it does not serve the game as it should, and wastes too much money on bureaucracy.On the field, Sale are playing rugby at temperatures that only the well-insulated can handle.

Ben Cohen is out of action with a fractured cheekbone and will miss the next four weeks. His fellow international wing Sean Lamont failed to recover from an ankle injury, while the influential Carlos Spencer is still out with a hand injury, and the England hooker Steve Thompson was absent with a heavily bruised leg.Philippe Saint-Andr?the Sale coach, had no such problems and was able to select from a near full-strength squad, the only notable absentee being the centre Elvis Sevealai'i, who has a calf injury, which brought Robert Todd his fourth Premiership start of the campaign Not that everything is rosy in the Sale garden. "But some of our academy players put their hands up today, and never took a backward step." Even at full strength, Northampton would have been hard pressed to get a result here, but they were without a handful of their best players. An ERC tribunaldecided Henson had intentionally struck Moreno.Mike Ruddock, the Wales coach, said after the decision: "What this citing case proves is the importance for players at all levels to maintain good discipline.". Sale rarely put on the style for another capacity crowd at Edgeley Park yesterday to stay top of the Premiership, but let their forwards do the walking and talking against a Northampton side who defended resolutely and denied Sale a four-try bonus point.

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