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Tony Collins

@collinstony

Historian. Emeritus Professor of History at DMU, Fellow at Institute of Sports Humanities. ‘The history books are not enough - where are the wage lists?'

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When the RFU voted against broken-time payments in September 1893, Muff called it 'a reassertion of the typical British snob's comfortable belief that The Business Of The Working Man Is To Work; Providence made him a purpose; play was intended only for Us - Us Gentlemen.' 5/8