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Article: St Ambrose set on erasing memory of heartbreak.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 30, 2005
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Byline: JIM HOOLEY
FOR two years, the players of St Ambrose have been living with a crushing disappointment but now they may get the chance to exorcise the bad memories in the Daily Mail Schools' Rugby Under 18 Cup.
St Ambrose, who keep the rugby flag flying in Footballers Wives country at Hale Barns, just south of Manchester - where Mrs Roy Keane, Mrs Steve Bruce and Mrs Bryan Robson are among their neighbours -- have reached the last 16 for the first time, but it is a tight Under 15 quarterfinal that gnaws away at them.
In 2003-4, many of the current side lost to an injury-time try scored by eventual champions John Cleveland. If St Ambrose ...