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England - rugby world cup favourites 2011

March 11th, 2011 · No Comments

newsfeeds@nzherald.co.nz wrote this article.
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I didn’t write the following…but there’s a prize for guessing who did…
“England have gladdened the heart with their three consecutive victories, and if two of them (those over Italy and France) could easily have been won by my Grandmother’s Select XV, then good […]

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England V Ireland - Six Nations 2011 - Stephen Jones Times

March 4th, 2011 · No Comments

noreply@blogger.com (slugso) wrote this article. It was impossible to detect among the tumult of tens of thousands of enraptured Irish in the Aviva stadium but somewhere was the sound of chickens coming home to roost. Ireland destroyed England’s aspirations of a Grand Slam and real World Cup contention, and the final scoreline did not […]

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England 9 V Wales 19 - Stephen Jones Times

March 4th, 2011 · No Comments

noreply@blogger.com (slugso) wrote this article. Wales 19 - England 9: Wasteful England picked off13 August 2011Millennium Stadium
After two weeks of serious battling, it is Wales who now look the more convincing team as the World Cup approaches. This was a victory that they thoroughly deserved, and it was gained with a team […]

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