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Outcast: Scott Spedding is finding it impossible to sign for a new club
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Top 14 clubs like Toulouse, Montpellier and Toulon were ready to sign France full-back Scott Spedding. Until, that is, the country hung him out to dry.
Now he is without a club at all, turned into a pariah by a Federation that rushed to cap him in the hope he would save their faces.
Having a South African play a World Cup for them was fine before they sanctioned a system that would cost him his job.
Spedding has become a victim of a League rule imposing more and more...