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Whitstable Red Shanks visit Czech Republic's Ricany for historic walking rugby match - and return victorious

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History is thought to have been made when a walking rugby side from Kent became one of, if not, the first to play an international fixture.

The Whitstable Red Shanks travelled to the Czech Republic and Ricany, a town twinned with Whitstable, with the trip arranged with support from the Whitstable Twinning Association and the Ricany Twinning Association.

They faced a Ricany RFC team - the Czech Republic champions and an outfit which even included an Olympic wrestler - during a five-day tour last month, with Whitstable winning eight tries to six.

It’s thought the game was one of the first international encounters, albeit England did play Scotland in Kendal, Cumbria, in 2020.

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