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Sale vs Gloucester: How a Provincial Rugby Grudge Match Became the World’s Drunken Metaphor
ByDaveslocker 25 September 2025

Sale vs Gloucester: When a Provincial English Punch-Up Becomes the World’s Loud, Drunken Metaphor By Dave’s International Affairs Correspondent (currently hiding in a Moldovan wine cellar) SALE, a former mill town whose civic pride now resides in a rugby stadium and a defunct Debenhams, versus GLOUCESTER, a cathedral city whose most famous export is the…

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International | Sports

Black Ferns: The Undefeated Mirror Reflecting Global Hypocrisy—One Rugby Massacre at a Time
ByDaveslocker 13 September 2025

Black Ferns: How a Kiwi Rugby Dynasty Became the World’s Accidental Barometer for Everything WELLINGTON—If you’ve never heard of the Black Ferns, congratulations: you’ve just confessed to the Southern Hemisphere that you still think rugby is a polite mud-wrestle between English villages. New Zealand’s women’s national team has spent three decades turning opponents into highlight-reel…

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