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Nick Cain: The Doyen, in whose shadow we all stand

There was a Grand Canyon of a gap in the ranks of the rugby union writers assembled at Twickenham to report on the 144th International between England and Wales yesterday.

There was a Grand Canyon of a gap in the ranks of the rugby union writers assembled at Twickenham to report on the 144th International between England and Wales yesterday.

That is because Stephen Jones, below, the rugby correspondent of The Sunday Times for a remarkable 42 years, and my colleague during a significant tranche of time at that newspaper, retired last month, and the absence in the press box of his rumbustious presence, accompanied by full flow dictating to the last copy-taker on the planet, was keenly felt as England and the Land of his Fathers went at it again.
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