The Light Blues’ mighty duo may be a godsend or a curse!

Brendan Gallagher looks at the 138th Varsity match, kicking off at Twickenham on Thursday

Line-out strength: James Horwill was a stalwart for Harlequins

To have one world class veteran lock available for the Varsity match is either fortunate or extremely good planning, but to have two packing down alongside each other is each other is nigh on miraculous.
So the presence of both James Horwill and Flip van der Merwe in the Cambridge boilerhouse next Thursday is an occasion worth noting.
Horwill hung up his professional boots in May after four, often injury plagued, years with Harlequins wh...

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