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Via The Daily Mail: Why Portsmouth's stars run longer and shoot harder JOHN EDWARDS Portsmouth are the only English club to latch on to a trend that was the talk of the rugby World Cup — ionized shirts, or 'wearable steroids' as the marketing bods soon dubbed them. South Africa were one of the rugby countries to use them and they won it. Developed by New Zealand kit firm Canterbury, the ...
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