Rugby Union’s World Cup kicks off on Friday – but why did it take the game until 1987 to stage a world cup? ‘Rugby Reloaded’ plus talks to journalist and historian Huw Richards about the tangled pre-history of the world cup and how it eventually kicked off Down Under.
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