North-South Divide Narrows As the Battle for Supremacy Hots Up; Victories by France and Ireland Have Set the Tone

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Arguments continue to rage about the desira-bility of a global season but this end-of-year international window remains an annual measure of how European nations are faring against the perceived - and once indisputable - might of the southern hemsiphere.

There is little doubt that England's World Cup triumph last year was built on the confidence generated from their victories over all three southern hemisphere giants on successive weekends the previous autumn.

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North-South Divide Narrows As the Battle for Supremacy Hots Up; Victories by France and Ireland Have Set the Tone

Both Sir Clive Woodward, then England's manager, and the Australia coach, Eddie Jones, whose side competed for 109 minutes before losing the final at the end of extra time, were unwilling to regard their ...

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