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They had been won in a 1996 auction by Nextwave, which had the high bid of $4.7 billion.
Each of those Cup titles has been won in a different country, but Toulouse has yet to claim a title on English soil.
This friendly, meanwhile, is highly significant: it's Steven Gerrard's 100th cap, for goodness sake, and only the 83rd to have been won in a friendly featuring two half-strength teams at best.
Some of the licenses that were recently auctioned had initially been won in a 1996 auction by a company that was subsequently unable to pay the $4.7 billion it had bid for 63 licenses.
Indeed as Mr Cannadine notes at one point: "The British Empire may have been won in a 'fit of absence of mind', but as far as the majority of the population seems to have been concerned, it was given away in a fit of collective indifference".
Packing out the mission not from piety but because they have been won in a bet, this bunch of gambling scapegraces take the roof off as Gavin Spokes's adorable Nicely-Nicely conducts them through reprise after show-stopping reprise of "Sit Down, You're Rocking The Boat".
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Thursday's stage was won in a solo effort by Alejandro Valverde, a Spaniard with Movistar.
A Tour de France can be won in a few hundred metres.
The stage was won in a sprint by Graeme Brown, an Australian rider from the Rabobank team.
"He's afraid something might be won in a marginal way.
The stage was won in a mass sprint by Lucas Sebastian Haedo of Argentina.
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