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Wales v England head-to-head ratings as hosts have advantage in just two positions right now

Maybe the only thing certain about a Wales v England rugby match is the uncertainty.

One side might seem overwhelming favourites on paper, as England were when they arrived in Cardiff in 1993, for instance. They had won back-to-back Grand Slams and were formidable in all areas, but Wales were able to shock them as they secured their only win of the tournament.

It had been the same four years earlier, again in Cardiff, when a Welsh side battered by losses to rugby league somehow fashioned a win, with Robert Jones inspiring them with wonderful box-kicking in the rain and Robert Norster, Phil Davies and Paul Thorburn also playing dominant roles. "Don't ask me about emotions in the Welsh dressing room. I'm someone who cries when he watches Little House on the Prairie," Norster once said.

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