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Article: Stirring Wales pass the spoon
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 17, 1996
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EVEN if it gave England the championship, Wales were still
overjoyed with this single-point victory over the title favourites,
France, which saved them from a second successive whitewash. They
had salvaged something memorable from a season in which one high
hope after had been followed by disappointment. And they did it
without sacrificing the fast, ambitious, total rugby which had so
far brought them no success.
It has to be said, too, that while the talented Arwel Thomas may
be the future, the experienced Neil Jenkins provided the present
assurance that matters on the field would be conducted sensibly. He
not only kicked 11 of Wales's points, but fairly reliably found
safe touches and ...