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Rugby

20th May 2015

Pic: The RFU have made a bit of a howler promoting their new training kit

Shoddy attention to detail

Neil Treacy

Ah, we’ll take any kind of victory over the English.

Not content with lording it over them about the dramatic Six Nations win, we can now boast that they needed our help to flog their new training gear.

Just like Ireland, they launched their training kit for the Rugby World Cup today, but the pictures on their website show that Canterbury must have either run out of togs for the photoshoot, or had an embroidery issue, because the IRFU are getting a sneaky little plug on the side of their shorts.

shorts

Can’t see it? Here’s a closer look.

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Hardly the most embarrassing thing that’ll ever happen the RFU, but who are we to turn down a moral victory?

The air would turn blue if the IRFU made a similar faux pas.

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