Unsentimental Geoff Parling shows his true colours
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The new England kit, featuring the red rose in the centre of the chest for the first time, will be launched today, no doubt with great fanfare, emotive rhetoric and marketing jargon from the Rugby Football Union and Canterbury, its manufacturers.
The new shirt will make the RFU plenty of money — in 2013, the union pocketed £5.
4 million from merchandising — but it will not help England to win a single game between now and the World Cup (when another new kit will be launched) and results are all that the players care about.
Geoff Parling, the Leicester lock, recognises the
The new shirt will make the RFU plenty of money — in 2013, the union pocketed £5.
4 million from merchandising — but it will not help England to win a single game between now and the World Cup (when another new kit will be launched) and results are all that the players care about.
Geoff Parling, the Leicester lock, recognises the
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