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Brendan Gallagher: 30 years on for the 1995 World Cup final, and we’ve not built on our dreams

It comes as something of a shock to realise that this week represents the 30th anniversary of the 1995 World Cup Final ... and what a week it was with a decade’s worth of stories. I’m still exhausted thinking about it now.
The Boks escaping with a miracle win in slightly contentious circumstances from a drenched Durban; Jonah Lomu, the new rugby god, slaying England in Cape Town and reinventing rugby as we knew and understood it; Rupert Murdoch and his henchmen buying up the sport south of the equator and signalling the de facto arrival of professionalism; Jonah allegedly being pursued an...

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