Riverford says its varieties are selected for flavour, and offers no apologies if they arrive with a bit of mud attached.

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Men who are comfortable in boots, the dust or the mud, around horses and cattle and a bit disdainful of sidewalks.

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Sometimes, though, it comes down to the sort of game where hard grunt is the key - half the season is played in rain and heavy mud and Bath maybe just lack a little bit of dog.

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Each side had a man dismissed in that last encounter, while Diouf, Brown and Celtic manager Neil Lennon engaged in a bit of tit-for-tat mud-slinging in the days that followed.

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The tough bit is getting the requisite amount of drilling mud far enough down the well.

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