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Not sure about the other papers, I just grab whatever is there. But it's not just the papers. When all home nations are playing on the same day you can be sure the national news will give the England result precedence. And before someone wheels out the line that most of the viewers are English, does that mean we should get a licence fee reduction? (come back Defiant all is forgiven)

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Back to the rugby - if England manage to beat SA in the final, regardless of the score or how they play, I'll be impressed. Can't see it happening though.

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I too think SA will be too strong for England. As much as I wanted argentina to win yesterday I am glad they didnt. could you imagine the buildup and the number of references to the Falklands war, oh and Deigo MAradonna, that would have been on the back pages?

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and if England won it would be down to Johnnys 'Foot of God'
I could see the back page of the sun now, a picture of his boot and a request to pray to the boot.

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I think they have been pretty impartial, anyway for whose benefit is this impartiality, the anti English, Welsh and Scots perhaps? Even if you are right, what do you expect anyone here to do about it, having a sly dig won't put right any perceived media wrongs will it, so why bother?

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Im sure if it was Wales in the final instead of England, ITV would have had Mr & Mrs Charlotte Church as their guest pundits gushing on about how good wales were tc etc , and I would now all the Welsh players names' by now. I bet no England fan would have been moaning about it this morning, like Mr Wales RussB has today.

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I apologise for having views which you disagree with and I also apologise for posting them on a discussion board.

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I'm pleased that you're impressed with my body after all the effort I've put in down the gym but I hardly think I'm worthy of that title yet :D

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trust me, having not seen your body, as well as having no desire to see it, the award was for your mental, and not physical presence...... :D

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that's actually a compliment too - 2 from you in ten minutes, sorry sir but I'm straight.

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think of it like a Darwin award..... ;)

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No no, I'll take it as intended, one man's admiration for another :) anyway back to the rugby....

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I am sure if by some miracle they managed to reach a final, the English wouldn't hide their contempt behind cheap shots and cries of media bias on the bloody internet, bleating on to people that couldn't do anything about it or give a damn in equal measure

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I wouldn't call it a miracle, after all we soundly beat England (and everyone else) to take the Grand Slam in 2004. Funnily enough the back pages of the papers weren't full of columns about Wales as they are for England when they win the tournament. Still, that's not media bias eh?

Mind you, I'll be sure to run any other views by you in future, just to make sure they qualify for posting on an internet discussion forum.

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I would, wasn't that when we took 2 years of to go on tour with the World cup

Probably a good idea considering the amount of crap you have posted in this thread, tell me all those not so sly digs, shouldn't they have been aimed at the media and not the team then?

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Or back to the rugby commentary which by the sounds of things was much like your quote.

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No, it was when the England team (ie Jonny Wilkinson) was out with a long-term injury.

They weren't aimed at the team - they were aimed at certain England fans who read far more in to the result than was there.