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Peter Jackson: Wingers who fly high in their teens

Those teenagers who dare to wing it across the international stage belong to a galaxy of meteoroids once flown by England’s Russian Prince and Ireland’s King of Ketchup.

Those teenagers who dare to wing it across the international stage belong to a galaxy of meteoroids once flown by England’s Russian Prince and Ireland’s King of Ketchup.
His Highness Alexander Sergeevich Obolensky was 19 when he laid the All Blacks low with two tries on debut at Twickenham in January 1936.
Almost 20 years later, Tony O’Reilly did something similar to South Africa as a teenaged Test Lion.

Obolensky, a babe when his royal family fled Moscow for London after the Bolshevik Revolution, cuts a dashing figure on a larger-than-life sized statue in Ipswich where he was buried afte...

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