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Cotton Traders defies high street downturn with new stores as owner nears $1.6bn float
The company, which was founded by former England national rugby union team captains Fran Cotton and Steve Smith in the late 1980s, opened 10 new stores last year, bringing its total brick and ...
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How are Scotland stars placed for Lions selection?
It was late spring of 1997 and Fran Cotton was talking freely on the telephone. Manager of the upcoming Lions tour to South Africa, Cotton was a reporter's dream. Working for an Irish newspaper in ...
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Perennial eligibility debate over rugby’s project players rears up again
As warrior portraits go it was up there with some of rugby’s all time greats: a blood-stained Jean Pierre Rives, a mud-plastered Fran Cotton, a truly terrifying Sebastian Chabal. Test rugby is a ...