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The Welsh Rugby Annual of 1991 appeared in the form of a death notice, its front cover etched in a rectangle of funereal black, the last rites duly administered.
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The Welsh Rugby Annual of 1991 appeared in the form of a death notice, its front cover etched in a rectangle of funereal black, the last rites duly administered.

“Welsh rugby at senior international level is dead,” the annual’s editor, the late Arwyn Owen, declared for the benefit of the doubting Thomases. “It had been in extremely poor health for several seasons.”
During the season under review, Wales had finished bottom of the Five Nations for the third year in a row.
As if to show that was no fluke, they resurfaced in Australia a few months later for a one-off ‘Test’ which still ranks as...

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