Sports cheats tarnish our memories
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Sports cheats tarnish our memories
Those of us who love French rugby are sorely disappointed by Philippe St-André’s team today.
Where is the famous French flair? Where the elan that had magical tries being scored from deep in their own half, as the ball passed through at least half-a-dozen pairs of hands? The bludgeon has replaced the rapier, and rugby is the poorer.
So we look back nostalgically, some as far back as the Fifties and Sixties, to the Boniface brothers and Jo Maso, more to the Eighties and players like Serge Blanco, Philippe Sella, Denis Charvet, Eric Bonneval and Franck Mesnel, all capable of the extraordin…
Where is the famous French flair? Where the elan that had magical tries being scored from deep in their own half, as the ball passed through at least half-a-dozen pairs of hands? The bludgeon has replaced the rapier, and rugby is the poorer.
So we look back nostalgically, some as far back as the Fifties and Sixties, to the Boniface brothers and Jo Maso, more to the Eighties and players like Serge Blanco, Philippe Sella, Denis Charvet, Eric Bonneval and Franck Mesnel, all capable of the extraordin…
