Last Easter Paul Allen, owner of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, held the fate of his team in his hands.

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Matt Stevens, Nick Easter, Martin Corry and Paul Sackey come in, with Jason Robinson moving to full-back.

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However, four others were introduced to Pat Fenlon's line-up - Paul Hanlon, Ian Murray, Martin Scott and Victor Palsson - after the Easter Road outfit were held 1-1 at home to Inverness in their last fixture.

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So the great tradition is not dead, even if Britain's politicians still have much to learn to reach the standards of Australia, where a future prime minister, Paul Keating, told an incumbent one, Malcolm Fraser, that he looked like an Easter Island statue with an arse full of razor blades.

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