the final round of the world rally championship is under way injapan with britain's elvin evans hoping rival belgian driver thierry newville crashing at the start of stage six, evans is on now course to finish runner up in the drivers' championship to his toyota team—mate kalla rovanpera. evans is currently leading by one minute and 49 seconds. victory on sunday would be his third of the season and the most he has achieved in one year. northampton saints play leicester tigers in the premiership this weekend and one player hoping to make an impression is saints flanker tom pearson. he lost his job in the summer after his former club, london irish, went into administration, one of four clubs to do so in the last 12 months. his family have run a farm in northamptonshire for the last 200 years and this week tom returned to help out. james burridge was there. tom pearson and his uncle robert, back together working on the family farm, their home for 200 years. itrailien farm, their home for 200 years. when tom phoned — farm, their home for 200 years. when tom phoned me _ farm, their home for