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Rugby’s greatest one-liner
The Springboks were loathed by black South Africans. For many, the jersey represented white oppression. For Afrikaners, South Africans of mainly Dutch descent, rugby was integral to their cultural identity.
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Memories of the 1976 Open and the dawn of the golden age of European golf At the foot of a bronze Hercules in Portmeirion — the statue Clough Williams-Ellis spotted
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Write for the Armchair There is a particular kind of sports writing that almost doesn't exist any more. Not the match report. Not the pundit's take.
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Scotland at the Parc des Princes — Five Nations, February 1995 By Stuart Lennon "C'est bien, non?" We nodded enthusiastically. Prop forwards in the mid 1990s were
The Man Who Tipped his Hat
Memories of The 100th Open Championship 1971 — Royal Birkdale By Hugh Lee Every golf fan remembers their first Open. Mine was the ninety-eighth edition at Royal Lytham St Annes.
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Views from the Armchair began with a memory — a boy at Royal Birkdale in 1971, watching Lee Trevino win the Open Championship, and a Taiwanese golfer called Mr Lu charm