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Down a whitewashed alley in Athens to the world's best rugby-watching pub

Greece is a very good place, filled with good people, but it's not a good place for watching the rugby. At least, that's what I thought before the World Cup

03 November 2019 - 00:00 By and darrel bristow-bovey

Sometimes we forget, being so caught up in our own psycho-political dramas and emotional crises in this country, that rugby means something to other people too, that sport is like art or music or any other hand-made current of human passion: it exists to give dimension to our lives, to bring people together...

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