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The French connection

THE French connection for Spain is not new, it’s just been a Catch 22 situation of Los Leones never previously having a strong enough national side to take advantage of the strong hereditary connections with parts of southern France, especially the rugby strongholds in the Basque south west and the Catalan south east.
Neither region, culturally, really recognises the national border which runs roughly along the line of the Pyrenees and has never prevented the free flow of peoples either way. As a rough guide where there is – or has been – a bull-fighting ring in France the...

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