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Moment in Time: England trailblazers of 1991 changed women’s game

Neil Fissler tracks down the England Women’s team who reached the final of the 1991 Rugby World Cup

SUE Dorrington says the more doors that were slammed in her face, the more determined it made her to put on the first Women’s World Cup even though she admits her organising committee didn’t have a clue what they were doing.
The Netherlands were due to host the tournament but plans fell apart leaving charity consultant Dorrington and her committee to take the reins despite no help from the IRB or, initially, the RFU.
“We were very naive and very young, the story we tell and the story we stick to is we didn’t know what we were doing,” Dorrington tells The Rugby Paper.
“We were naively...

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