第4章：俱乐部与球场

The club took the name Harlequin in 1870.

来源：Harlequin Football Club history (quins.co.uk); RFU and EPCR records; ERC disciplinary findings, 2009 · 记忆

The new name had to begin with H, so the club's monogram could stay.

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Light blue, magenta, chocolate, French grey, black and light green.

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Stoop played for and later ran the club; the ground was named after him.

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It fills Twickenham with more than 80,000 fans.

来源：Harlequin Football Club history (quins.co.uk); RFU and EPCR records; ERC disciplinary findings, 2009 · 记忆

It let a specialist kicker return in a Heineken Cup quarter-final against Leinster.

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The club was fined and its physio and wing were banned too.

来源：Harlequin Football Club history (quins.co.uk); RFU and EPCR records; ERC disciplinary findings, 2009 · 记忆

1866, 1870, 2008 and April 2009.

来源：Harlequin Football Club history (quins.co.uk); RFU and EPCR records; ERC disciplinary findings, 2009 · 记忆

1866, 1867 and 1876.

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The national stadium, a short walk from the Stoop.

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At first only the forwards had them.

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The whole team wore letters by 1931.

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Leicester had copied New Zealand's 2-3-2 formation.

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Professional, televised rugby wanted standard numbers on every team.

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For nearly 90 years the Barbarians game was the biggest day of the club's calendar.

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They beat Stade Français in Paris and then Munster in Cardiff.

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Leicester won 15-9 at the Millennium Stadium.

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1926, 1931, 1998 and the 2010s.

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1997, 2001, 2002 and 2007.

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Five years after the forwards first wore them.

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The Rec sits in the middle of the city, on the river bank.

来源：Bath Rugby history (bathrugby.com); EPCR, 1998 Heineken Cup final; RFU league records · 记忆

Bath is one of England's oldest clubs.

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They won the final in Bordeaux.

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Brive were the holders.

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The final was played at the Stade Lescure.

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Covenants keep the Recreation Ground open for the public's recreation.

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Guscott played his whole club career at Bath.

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1865, 1996 and 1998.

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1998, 2000, 2001 and 2004.

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The Recreation Ground lies on the river Avon in Bath.

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The day was later sung about: 'and the pubs ran dry'.

来源：Welsh Rugby Union and the clubs' histories (Llanelli, Newport, Cardiff, Swansea, Neath, Pontypool); New Zealand Rugby tour records · 记忆

The song is called '9-3'.

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'Sosban fach' means 'little saucepan'.

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A drop goal won it at Rodney Parade.

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Cardiff won at the Arms Park in November 1953.

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Neath wear black jerseys with a white Maltese cross.

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Graham Price, Bobby Windsor and Charlie Faulkner.

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1935, 1953, 1963 and 1972.

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Faulkner at loosehead, Windsor at hooker, Price at tighthead.

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Llanelli's old home, before Parc y Scarlets.

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Montferrand is the part of Clermont-Ferrand where the club began.

来源：LNR and FFR records of French finals; ASM Clermont Auvergne, Stade Français Paris, Racing 92 and RC Toulon club histories · 记忆

They finally won against Perpignan.

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The Stade Marcel-Michelin.

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President Max Guazzini launched both in the early 2000s.

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They won the final against Agen.

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It is a war cry of the club's fans.

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Paris La Défense Arena is one of Europe's largest indoor arenas.

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1911, 1990, 2010 and 2017.

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1992, 2001 and 2015.

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The radio boss turned club president also made pink the club's colour.

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A famous night at Thomond Park in Limerick.

来源：IRFU and the provinces' histories (Munster, Leinster, Ulster, Connacht); EPCR, 1999 final; URC records · 记忆

Alan English later wrote a book on the same match, 'Stand Up and Fight'.

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The RDS is a showground used for horse shows too.

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Greyhounds race on a track round the pitch.

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Ulster beat Colomiers at Lansdowne Road.

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Ulster won 21-6 in Dublin.

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They won the Pro12 final in Edinburgh.

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1978, 1999 and 2016.

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1999, 2006 and 2009.

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The Sportsground, home of Connacht.

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It replaced windy Athletic Park as Wellington's test ground.

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It closed in 2011.

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It was built for the 2011 World Cup.

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Its clear roof lets in enough light for a natural turf pitch.

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The February 2011 earthquake ruined the ground.

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The Cake Tin opened the next year.

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It was finished just in time.

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1999, 2000, early 2011 and August 2011.

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From the North Island down to Otago.

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Forsyth Barr Stadium, opened in 2011.

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Robert Owen Loftus Versfeld set up sport in the city.

来源：SA Rugby and the provincial unions' histories (Blue Bulls, Western Province, Sharks); Loftus Versfeld and Newlands histories · 记忆

A fitting name for the Sharks' ground.

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Newlands hosted tests from 1891.

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They moved to the Cape Town Stadium.

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The stadium was built for the 2010 football World Cup.

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Pretoria's Blue Bulls.

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The Free State side.

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The Bulls, the Cheetahs, the Sharks and Western Province.

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1891, 2010 and 2021.

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Newlands lies below Table Mountain in Cape Town.

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The Rev. Samuel Wathen Wigg founded it as Northampton St James.

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Fans called them the 'Jimmies' before 'Saints' stuck.

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Gloucester wear cherry and white hoops.

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The school stood in Marylebone, London.

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Like many clubs, Sale added a nickname in the professional era.

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Bristol Rugby became Bristol Bears.

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The club kept the name Chiefs but dropped the image.

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1867, 1876 and 1880.

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1999, 2018 and 2022.

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Kingsholm's home side.

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Mayol paid for the land and gave it to the club.

来源：RC Toulon on Stade Mayol; Cardiff Rugby on the Arms Park; Racing 92 on Paris La Défense Arena; Connacht Rugby on the Sportsground · 记忆

Toulon is the base of the French navy in the Mediterranean.

来源：RC Toulon on Stade Mayol; Cardiff Rugby on the Arms Park; Racing 92 on Paris La Défense Arena; Connacht Rugby on the Sportsground · 记忆

The Cardiff Arms Hotel owned the land.

来源：RC Toulon on Stade Mayol; Cardiff Rugby on the Arms Park; Racing 92 on Paris La Défense Arena; Connacht Rugby on the Sportsground · 记忆

Saracens moved into Allianz Park in Barnet.

来源：RC Toulon on Stade Mayol; Cardiff Rugby on the Arms Park; Racing 92 on Paris La Défense Arena; Connacht Rugby on the Sportsground · 记忆

Matches are played indoors.

来源：RC Toulon on Stade Mayol; Cardiff Rugby on the Arms Park; Racing 92 on Paris La Défense Arena; Connacht Rugby on the Sportsground · 记忆

The Sapporo Dome has a pitch that slides in and out.

来源：RC Toulon on Stade Mayol; Cardiff Rugby on the Arms Park; Racing 92 on Paris La Défense Arena; Connacht Rugby on the Sportsground · 记忆

The pitch moves out of the dome so the grass gets sunlight.

来源：RC Toulon on Stade Mayol; Cardiff Rugby on the Arms Park; Racing 92 on Paris La Défense Arena; Connacht Rugby on the Sportsground · 记忆

The 1870s, 1920, 2001 and 2017.

来源：RC Toulon on Stade Mayol; Cardiff Rugby on the Arms Park; Racing 92 on Paris La Défense Arena; Connacht Rugby on the Sportsground · 记忆

Fame in Paris, the land deal, and the ground's opening in 1920.

来源：RC Toulon on Stade Mayol; Cardiff Rugby on the Arms Park; Racing 92 on Paris La Défense Arena; Connacht Rugby on the Sportsground · 记忆

Stade Mayol is on the port of Toulon.

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