Rugby isn’t really my thing, but a stress-free England semi-final certainly is | Max Rushden

If England win I’ll be happy, if they lose I won’t be bereft. Beating the All Blacks would be exceptional – but so was the maul that snapped my schoolboy armThe date 19 October 1993 is not seminal in rugby history. I only remember it because it was the day Jeremy Goss scored that volley against Bayern Munich. I was watching with my right arm in a cast. Hours earlier a rolling maul rolled all the way on to my arm and snapped my ulna. I lay on the floor while play continued. It was freezing. It was always freezing when we played rugby. Eventually the game stopped and Mr Toy came over.“Can you wi…

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