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Lion who enjoyed a taste of Italy

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PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

ANDREA Gazzi’s grave lies on the Inner Hebridean island of Islay, a long way from the fishand-chip shop he left behind in Gorseinon.
The explanation as to how the Bowmore New Parish churchyard came to be his final resting place is to be found in a maritime disaster during the first summer of the Second World War, one made all the more poignant when put in a rugby context.
Gazzi would never have heard of the game when he migrated a century or so ago from his native Bardi in northern Italy to find, like so many of his compatriots, a rewarding market a...

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