SuperWrap: Week 10, 2015
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A rivalry unrivalled
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
" Those words belong to Winston Churchill but he must have got the general idea from whoever the guy was that started Bulls rugby.
It was in 1938 that Winston’s hero approached the divorce court.
He had had enough.
Northern Transvaal (as the Blue Bulls were known then) and Transvaal (now the Lions) should go their separate ways, he decided, and with the bang of a gavel it was so.
Very little is written about the bitterness of the actual proceedings, but a quick Cup count goes a long way in suggesting t…
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
" Those words belong to Winston Churchill but he must have got the general idea from whoever the guy was that started Bulls rugby.
It was in 1938 that Winston’s hero approached the divorce court.
He had had enough.
Northern Transvaal (as the Blue Bulls were known then) and Transvaal (now the Lions) should go their separate ways, he decided, and with the bang of a gavel it was so.
Very little is written about the bitterness of the actual proceedings, but a quick Cup count goes a long way in suggesting t…