Super Saturday?
So the 2008 Six Nations Championship (a rugby competition between England, Scotland,Ireland, Wales, France and Italy) concluded on Saturday. Congratulations to Wales on their Grand Slam (winning all their matches), their second in four years.
Before the it began, the pundits were predicting the most open tournament for many years, and they were right. All the teams were much closer in the standard of rugby they played than for a long time, but Wales were certainly the best team and deserved their win.
You could argue that this “closeness” made the competition very exciting and, in terms of the results and winning margins, perhaps it was. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves though. The quality of rugby was far, far from a high standard. Why was it close? In simple terms it was because most teams (Italy excepted) have gone backwards, which made most of the games dull and tedious.
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