Ty Cobb sat in a corner, his smile a crooked line, and said, I scuffed the ball, my friend.

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The northerners were on terms by the 16th minute as Humphreys notched a clever try by running to grasp his own dinked kick over the Munster defence after Denis Fogarty's crooked line-out throw had conceded a scrum in the home 22.

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The line between a country's national team and its top clubs can be a bit crooked.

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