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    The Wrong Side of History

    Apr 01, 2019 3 minutes
    WYNNE GRAY

    HISTORY NEVER REPEATS? Try telling that to Samoa and their rugbyloving followers.

    After being part of the Super 10 series they were shut out when professional rugby burst into action in 1996 and a similar fate apparently faces them and Pacific neighbours Fiji and Tonga if the World League is endorsed.

    It has the same smell as the landscape leading into the 1995 World Cup when administrators,

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