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The boys down west who know how to win

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CHRIS HEWETT
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The way they see it down Exeter way, only one team is flying the flag for the region as the Premiership campaign heads for home.
And who might that be?
Exeter, as it happens, on the grounds that their nearest top-flight neighbours – Bath, Bristol, Gloucester – are impostors from the Midlands masquerading as West Countrymen with their townie accents and their “cowpat chic” shooting jackets.
Geographically-based outbreaks of identity politics took root in domestic union many moons ago: “Come on Cornwall, shove it up the English” read a memorable banner on Count...

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