'Rocky, heaving, but brutally beautiful': What we learnt about every RWC contender in 2021

The 2021 rugby landscape was rocky, heaving, occasionally barren, but in the end, brutally beautiful in that way the skeletal Namib or the paprika-tinted Outback or the wind-scoured Outer Hebrides or the rugged tip of Brittany or the vast black beaches of New Zealand’s western shore can be. What did we learn? Rugby’s elite ten […]

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