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Peter Jackson: English and Kiwi worries promise World Cup like no other

A weekend of historic dimension has set the tectonic plates of the old game spinning as never before.
Peter Jackson: English and Kiwi worries promise World Cup like no other

ENGLISH WOES: Fiji players celebrate the final whistle following the Summer Nations Series match at Twickenham Stadium. Pic: David Davies/PA Wire.

Those volcanic eruptions from Mount Twickenham raise the seismic prospect of a World Cup like no other from start to finish.

A weekend of historic dimension has set the tectonic plates of the old game spinning as never before, leaving New Zealand’s Shaky Islands, at one end of the planet, shakier still and England, at the other, not knowing whether they are coming or going.

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