Andrew hails “extraordinary” growth of Rugby World Cup 27/04/2010 |
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Rugby Football Union elite rugby director Rob Andrew has hailed the growth of the Rugby World Cup (RWC).
With 500 days to go until next year’s tournament in New Zealand, travel agent England Rugby Travel has reported record sales of its official supporter packages, with income up 37 per cent on the same period ahead of RWC 2007, which took place in France.
Andrew, who played in the inaugural RWC in 1987 and the next two in 1991 and 1995, said: “The growth and expansion of Rugby World Cup in the last 20 years is just extraordinary.
“Rugby World Cup has now taken off to such an extent that each one has got bigger and bigger in terms of the number of people travelling, the event itself and the interest from the pool phase right the way through to the final.
“It’s that feeling of ‘This is my team and I’m here, I want to be here’, because if you didn’t go and you missed out on something as special as what can happen at any Rugby World Cup, it never comes back. That’s what top-class sport has developed into – people want to be there and they can say that they were there.”
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