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RWC2025 - Week 1 Wrap

So much rugby and even more feelings

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Alice Soper
Aug 27, 2025
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33 hours door to door to get to the other side of the world. Another 20 hours on the road for four games of rugby. All the sights, sounds and stimulation I had hoped for. But honestly, nothing on the pitch matters more than the folks in the stands.

The gorgeous, diverse, divergent, emotional, passionate, cheeky, deadpan, fiery racket that are the peopl…

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