It is hard not to conclude that the International Rules has become to sport what dear old Nidge was to fictive characters of the criminal underworld: out of friends and living on borrowed time. To absolutely no fanfare, the sprawling, messy sporting extravaganza dreamed up between Australian and Irish sporting nationalists in the closing months of the Summer of Love, made its way to Australia this week for a best-of-one series which is due to take place on November 22nd. Nobody has explicitly said it but this tour has all the signs of being a farewell to a strange and at times wonderful experiment which was...
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