WORLD Cup organisers reported significant ticket sales for games in Lille from the Netherlands and one student rugby club, TSRC Tarantula from Tilburg in Holland, were on a jolly in the town centre on Friday ahead of the weekend’s matches. The club website states: “Rugby is by outsiders considered as a rough and tough sport played by people who have no brains and only know how to hurt each other. Luckily the difference is true.”

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