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Desperately seeking horseplay at a gay rugby tournament

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Mark Simpson
Oct 18, 2022
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The Rugby League World Cup currently underway in England in all its rucking-rutting Ultra HD glory, reminded me of another international rugby tournament. Back in 2004 I penned this scurrilous and side-letting-down feature for David Mills at Australia's (now sadly defunct) Blue magazine, about my churlish disappointment with the Gay Ruby (Union) World C…

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