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RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

Best of the best: Argentina legend Juan Martin Fernandez-Lobbe

THERE has been such an extraordinary array of big names players retiring over the last month or so that we are in danger of overlooking one I would rate right at the top of the pile – Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, who captains the Barbarians against England today.
When I think of Fernandez Lobbe two images instantly come to mind. The first was barely half an hour after the World Cup play-off in 2007 at the Parc des Princes in the dri...

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