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Pountney not too 'Keane' on SRU

Budge Pountney will go down in history as the ‘Roy Keane’ of Scottish rugby.

Pountney not too 'Keane' on SRU

Wed, 29 Jan, 2003 - 11:16

Budge Pountney will go down in history as the ‘Roy Keane’ of Scottish rugby.

The parallels with the Ireland football captain’s stormy exit from the national team’s camp ahead of last year’s World Cup are there for all to see.

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