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Remember that bloke Roy G. Biv? The acronym for kids to learn the colours of the spectrum. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, and every shade in between.
Except black, which isn’t there, because it’s not even a colour, just an absence of light and shade.
And in the case of the UK’s Rugby Football Union, an absence of good sense, good taste, good judgment and good humour.
I mean the English colours are red, white and blue, so why can’t their alternative playing strip be red or blue? And yet they’ve adopted the black of New Zealand.
What an insult! What a humourless pack of bastards.
Is it a useless wind up? No doubt some smarmy poms had a good snigger – are you over it yet, lads?
I hope you are booed off the park in NZ. You want to hope that the marketing guys haven’t saddled you with a ploy that’s going to backfire on you.
I suppose the only advantage for opposition teams is that it will make it easier to see the whites of their eyes.
Best of British, Non Whites!
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