Swansea City fan and historian Prof Peter Stead said football initially struggled to make an impact in Wales because rugby had taken a grip on parts of the country.

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Former U.S. senator and lifelong Sox fan George Mitchell also is featured, along with filmmaker Spike Lee, a rabid Sox-hater and Yankee fan, and also filmmaker Peter Farrelly, a diehard Bosox partisan.

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De Villiers is known to be a fan of Western Stormers fly-half Peter Grant, who played for him in last year's Emerging Springbok team when he was coach.

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