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Picamoles escaped but Montpellier did not …

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The Rugby Paper Team
28 October 2018

BACK in the day when Tommy Smith, Ron ‘Chopper’ Harris and their apprentices ruled English football with a rod of iron they never wasted any time getting stuck into the opposition. Introductory fouls were dispensed on the understanding that referees were less likely to send them off in the first minute than in the last.
Despite the all-seeing cameras and the prying eyes of a referee, two assistants and the man-inthe- van, Louis Picamoles showed last weekend the old theory still applies in rugby. In a cynical attempt to prevent a first-minute Newcastle try, the Montpellier No.8 c...

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