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Farewell to Tigers’ life and soul’

THEY came from near and far to a 12th century church in the heart of England last week to pay tribute to the ‘greatest of all Leicester Tigers’, the incomparable David Matthews. How great could be gauged from the sight of almost a complete pack of England captains filing into St Nicholas’ in the Rutland village of Cottesmore.
There were seven in all with Budge Rogers, who had turned 80 barely a fortnight earlier, heading the list in terms of seniority, albeit as the odd man out from Bedford.
The other six earned the right to wear the national armband as Tigers – Pete...

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