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Over a pie and a pint, the Five Nations was saved

LONG after his improbable conversion from ball-boy at Hampden Park for Queen’s Park FC to international rugby referee, Allan Hosie played a critical role in rescuing the game’s greatest annual tournament from self-destruction.
As a weird way of promoting the last year of the Five Nations, the organisers gave the largest member of its once cosy little club the order of the boot. England had been kicked out as a reprisal for negotiating a television deal which left their celtic brethren high and dry.
The RFU, weary of an arrangement which they swore left them short changed, br...

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