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Article: Sale loud and proud achievers
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 29, 1997
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There is no earthly point in attempting to deny that Manchester
United are bigger news than Sale Rugby Football Club. Ryan Giggs,
Roy Keane and David Beckham are indisputably more glamorous than
David Rees, John Fowler and Steve Diamond; Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's
fresh-faced exuberance captures the imagination more readily than
John Mitchell's cauliflower ear, and you can be sure that for every
unsolicited pair of knickers sent to Dewi Morris by adoring woman
fans, Eric Cantona receives an entire warehouse-full of exotic
lingerie.
In fact, the two clubs have nothing in common apart from
geographical proximity. No more than half a dozen miles apart, they
are unlikely neighbours - the Old ...