Top dogs in danger of losing their bite

CHRIS HEWETT
GUEST COLUMNIST

We’re almost there. By mid-November, the cast list of next year’s World Cup will be finalised, with one of four complete no-hopers earning the right to be smithereened all over France.
Even better, they’ll have done it by surviving three repechage matches in the extreme temperatures of Dubai – arugby hotbed, if only in the climatological sense. How they must be loving life.
The idea that the international game’s equivalents of Old Muckyduckians, Nempnett Thrubwell Extra 3rds, Fred Karno’s Army and Mothercare should be flirting so dangerously with dehydration ...

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