Whether one likes it or not, the Rugby World Cup, to be played in France in two years, is already uppermost in national coaches’ minds. I don’t care for this because of the likelihood that it will overshadow the Six Nations tournament, and I find the idea of using the Six Nations as a trial for the World Cup deplorable.
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Many beautiful cities have tried and failed to tame the rowdy crowds.
Long, narrative melodies start, move up, curl back for a few notes, rise again, turn in on themselves, flowing like rivers of beautiful sound to their long conclusion.
“Hub” is a well-established English word, though it wasn’t used by Shakespeare, and wasn’t included by Dr Johnson in his great Dictionary of 1755.
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