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Rugby: Rombo’s steps could inspire current stars

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The mindset of the amateur Kenya rugby player has to change to cope with the demands of the professional game. Eddie Rombo, a high school boy 30 years ago, was a pioneer in England for the current crop of talent being exported abroad

World Speed Kings: The line-up for the Martin Offiah Sprint Challenge which took place at Central Park, London as part of Shaun Edward’s testimonial. Kenya rugby player Edward Rombo, then playing professional league for Leeds Rhinos was among them. From left to right: Guy Bullock, the British 400m runner; local athlete Martin Hallsworth; Ade Mafe, the former European indoor 200m champion; Leicester rugby union win Steve Hackney; rugby league player Eddie Rombo, Anthony Sullivan; rugby league icon Martin Offiah and ‘Casualty” TV series star Patrick Robinson. They ran the length on a rugby pitch.

1984 was the year, when in 1949, George Orwell predicted in his famous novel that the world would be in perpetual war, under omnipresent government (‘Big Brother’) surveillance and public manipulation.

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