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Send Offs and the Sin Bin
Who was really on the receiving end of the first red card? Are the sin bin and a yellow card the same thing?? Did the Springboks really invent the sin bin??
Episode 21 of The Rugby History Project unpacks the weird and complicated world of rugby union send offs, sin bins and cards.
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