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President Laporte poised to go on charm offensive

by
The Rugby Paper Team
12 November 2017

Touching gloves: Bill Beaumont and Bernard Laporte
PICTURE: Getty Images

Le Crunch, a term the French have long used for their encounters with England, evokes violent rugby passions on both sides of the Channel. It would be entirely fitting, too, to describe the showdown this week between Bernard Laporte, president of the French Rugby Federation, and Bill Beaumont, the English president of World Rugby.
Laporte won two Grand Slams as his national team’s head coach, Beaumont one as captain of his country and both won domestic titles as players. The spoils will not go this time, thoug...

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