The Welsh were no saints, I assure you

Match-winner: Scotland’s Tony Stanger makes his break against England in 1990
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Reading last week’s Sunday’s Times I was amazed at how pious and biased Stephen Jones comments were regarding rugby’s past.
According to Jones it seems that after a game, all Welsh players were and are innocent and wholesome while singing hymns and Christmas carols, while the English unleashed a barrage of sexist vulgar songs. Apparently, songs of such vulgarity that they slowed the progress of women playing the game.
I’ve played many times in Wales over the y...

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