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Ladies or women, they need to raise bar

CATHERINE SPENCER
FORMER ENGLAND WOMEN’S CAPTAIN

Football is a game for gentlemen played by hooligans, and Rugby Union is a game for hooligans played by gentlemen,” the wellknown saying was coined by Lord Tedder (Chancellor of Cambridge University) in the 1950’s. But 70 years later rugby is not just played by gentlemen; the ladies are here too.
Rugby is a game for hooligans played by ladies. Or is it? Harlequins ‘ladies’ are no longer; choosing to change their name to ‘women’: Harlequins women. Why? Is it important? Why not retain their ‘lad...

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