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Parisse, a tower of strength at No.8

CHRIS HEWETT
GUEST COLUMNIST

It stank to high heaven at the time, as sins against sporting justice always do, and the odour lingers in the nostrils. We are talking of the 2019 World Cup, which the governing class staged in a typhoon-threatened Japan, in typhoon season, without agreeing a contingency plan for a typhoon, and then reacted to the arrival of a typhoon by blowing Italy clean out of the tournament.
Why raise this now, the best part of four years down the road? Because 39-year-old Sergio Parisse, by many measures the finest No.8 of the modern era, has finally conceded defeat in h...

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