‘Big Basta à Big Apple’: Mathieu Bastareaud comes to New York
The giant French centre will play Major League Rugby next year and Samu Manoa, for one, is readying a very warm welcome indeed
Mathieu Bastareaud arrives at the hotel on Lexington and 57th with a stiff neck, but it’s not something to worry the French selectors. In Manhattan for the first time, he has simply spent most of his time looking up at buildings even bigger than he is.
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