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Cups galore but there’s room for one more

PETER JACKSON

FOR decade after decade, the old fogies responsible for running the world’s oldest annual international sporting event steadfastly refused to recognise it as a competition. In their unflinching protection of the Corinthian spirit, such a word smacked of professionalism.
Officially, they never published a table, let alone dared refer to it as a championship. “The official position is that it’s a series of individual matches, not a championship,’’ Ray Williams, then secretary of the Welsh Rugby Union, once told me. “So your idea of a trophy can’t happen.’’
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