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It’s not just our sporting heroes who are struggling – the polo shirts and rugby shirt worlds are reeling today. Hot on the heels of the dropping of Johnny Wilkinson from the England team came the news that Matthew Hoggard and Steve Harmison, his co-bowler had been dropped as bowlers for the forthcoming cricket match! Woe, oh woe! For those who make their living from the production and sale of sporting shirts and memorabilia, this is a double whammy. Wilkinson shirts, in all their forms and sizes, sell more than all the rest of the England Rugby squad put together, and while cricket sports tops are not sold in anything like the numbers of their rugby and football counterparts, the dropping of two experienced bowlers in favour of two relative unknowns has meant that many retailers have been scratching their heads, having no shirts printed up with the names of the replacements. The only good news, possibly, is that while the second day’s racing at Cheltenham was cancelled due to strong winds making the tented village unsafe for spectators, there are almost no promotional horse-racing garments, so nobody is going to be losing a fortune – except the bookies!
Rugby courtesy of bombdog
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