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Article: Enlightening referees could be a job for the Pontypool Front Row.(News)

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March 13, 2004
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Byline: By Mario Basini Western Mail

Among the greatest pleasures - and pain - of my brief rugby career was playing in the front row of the scrummage as a prop forward. Far from burying you in the peripheral obscurities of the game, life in the front row saw you at its cutting edge. For all its speed and poetry of movement, rugby remains a sport of physical confrontation, the pitting of your body against your opponent's in a bid to gain control over him.

The beauty of rugby is that such control does not depend on brute strength. Skill and invention in the ...

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