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Dreadful night for Scarlets

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When they drank Llanelli dry the day the Scarlets beat New Zealand 51 years ago, the public houses to run out of beer included The Black Lion in Market Street. Like Stradey Park itself, the old place is no more and yet a team bearing its name dared to take centre-stage in the old steel town last weekend.
Given that Welsh rugby is on the bones of its collective backside, the result of their visit (Scarlets 7, Black Lion 23) might have left the uninitiated wondering whether a pub team had gatecrashed the Challenge Cup and taken a famous old club to the cleaners.
The Black Lion in question, a c...

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