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My Life in Rugby with Allan Jacobsen: ‘Simple Minds? No, I put up posters of David Sole’

The former Scotland prop and all-time appearance record holder for Edinburgh 

When I was a boy growing up in the 80s I didn’t have posters of Simple Minds or The Proclaimers up on my bedroom wall, instead I had posters of props of the day like David Sole. I’ll never forget the Calcutta Cup match in 1990 and the slow walk out, it was unbelievable. I was in the schoolboy enclosure at the time, and you could feel the energy in the stadium.
I loved going there as a kid and, over time, I must have been to Murrayfield for well over 100 Scotland games, as a fan or as a player. It was actually on t...

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