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Fri 11 Nov 2008History as big a worry as Ulster for Bradley's men
MAGNERS LEAGUE: IT'S DOUBTFUL whether the burden of history will weigh more heavily on a team going into a Magners League fixture all season than on Connacht at Ravenhill this evening. It's not so much that they've forgotten how to win there, for Michael Bradley wasn't even born the last time Connacht won in Belfast, much less any of his players.
Burnley were the reigning English football champions and that summer the USSR had beaten Yugoslavia in the final of the European Championships and Muhammad Ali had just won gold at the Rome Olympics, while a week before, John F Kennedy had just been elected President of the United States.
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