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15 sparklers shining out of a tough year for rugby

CHRIS HEWETT

Bernard Laporte, Wasps and Worcester, the online victimisation of Wayne Barnes, the financial trials of the English Premiership, the impoverishment of the European Champions Cup: as the curtain descends on 2022, let’s be honest with ourselves. It was a rough old year for northern hemisphere rugby.
Yet, as regular readers of this column may have come to realise, the union game generates its share of smiles, not all of them contingent on an acute sense of irony. With the World Cup just a few months distant, here are some fresh reasons to be cheerful – 15 of them, an entire team ...

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