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2005 Slam? Mike had more fun at Swansea

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The Rugby Paper Team
17 March 2019

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Done it! Welsh scrum-half Dwayne Peel celebrates at the final whistle as Wales win the Grand Slam in 2005
PICTURE: Getty Images

Mike Ruddock had won every home match in the Six Nations when he and Wales broke up one St Valentine’s night long ago never to be reunited. That they called the whole thing off within 12 months of winning the grandest of 21st century Welsh Slams made the coach’s startling exit two matches into the defence of the title all the harder to fathom.
Thirteen years after walking out never to return, Ruddock was in C...

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