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From Wooden Spoon to beating the Boks!

Brendan Gallagher recalls how England went from their first ever Championship whitewash 50 years ago to beating South Africa at Ellis Park two months later

It was in 1972 that England achieved the virtually impossible for a rugby nation of their playing resources and slumped to a Championship whitewash, the first in their history. Despite fielding a squad packed with big names and players of acknowledged quality, England lost every game and finished the Championship in tatters with a 37-12 thumping from France in Paris.
Bizarrely a couple of months later with the rump of that squad int...

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