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King of the team sports? Not from where I’m sitting

CHRIS HEWETT

Later this year, when the French go tete-a-tete with the All Blacks in the opening fixture of the glitziest and most cacophonous World Cup ever staged, the highest and mightiest grandees of the governing class will wrap themselves in the ermine-clad idea that when it comes to team sports, the union code is king. Talk about barking up the wrong royal tree.
Try instead the White Queen from Through the Looking Glass, who famously believed “six impossible things before breakfast”. Her Maj would surely have recognised something of herself in a game that continues to consider itself ...

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