And so Joe Biden leaves the White House for the last time.
Whatever judgement history passes on his single term in the Oval Office, there can be no denying that the 46th President did what none of the previous 45 had done: he talked rugby, albeit after a fashion.
Bill Clinton and George W Bush played the game in their youth but without ever being in a position to put their limited knowledge into a global perspective. Biden deserves credit for that, even if his garbled account meant confusing his ancestral homeland’s beating of the All Blacks with the Irish War of Independence.
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