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Love it or hate it, the scrum still holds key

CHRIS HEWETT

GUEST COLUMNIST

Avery senior figure in English refereeing circles who must remain nameless – oh, alright then, Tony Spreadbury – once told a story about his first outing in charge of a Bristol-Gloucester derby, way back in the dim and distant when the Memorial Ground in winter was one part mud, three parts primordial soup.
Austin Sheppard was among the home team’s front rowers that night, and when the fledgling official decided to investigate some shenanigans at an early scrum, the venerable prop’s fruity voice emerged from somewhere near the earth&rs...

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