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WHAT IT’S LIKE TO… BEAT MENINGITIS TO PLAY IN A WORLD CUP

THE JOVIAL videos that Rosie Galligan’s mum has on her phone from September 2019 bely the seriousness of the situation that the England lock was in. Galligan, who had made her Test debut eight months earlier, was being rushed to hospital with suspected meningitis (later confirmed) but the gas and air she’d been given meant “I was high as a kite in the ambulance – my mum was taking videos as I was on great form!”

She wasn’t on such great form the night before. She felt so ill that she rang her dad in the middle of the night to ask him to

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