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Rachael Burford - England and Harlequins

Rachael Burford column: Record crowds week after week show England’s the best place to play rugby

A couple of England players said after the last game: “We’ve got the best fans in the world”.

And when you actually stop and think about it, we really do. We have gone from selling out Castle Park with 5,000 fans, to Covid shutting everything down, and then playing at bigger venues, like Sixways Stadium, last autumn. Now the game has exploded and England are breaking records week after week.

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