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Streamline Champions Cup -don’t just dilute it

CHRIS HEWETT
GUEST COLUMNIST

What bright spark invented this game of ours? The creation myth tells us it was a hoity-toity public schoolboy with a cavalier disregard for the rules. (No, not THAT one).
New Zealanders, on the other hand, deify Dave Gallaher, visionary captain of the 1905 “Originals”, as the motivating spirit behind the sport we now call Rugby Union.
Or maybe its first stirrings were in ancient Phrygia, with the bloke responsible for tying the Gordian Knot: a persuasive theory when you consider that the whole of rugby, from the definition of the humble forward pass to th...

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