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Fri 09 Sep 2007Best to return home soonRUGBY:Simon Best will hopefully be released to return home today or tomorrow after further tests following his sudden admission to hospital in Bordeaux on Wednesday evening ruled out any neurological problem.The 29-year-old Ulster prop was in a comfortable condition last night after being joined in Bordeaux yesterday by his wife Katie, whom he married last June after captaining Ireland on their summer tour to Argentina, while his father, John, arrives today. After what must have been a major scare for his brother Rory and the family, as well as the entire Ireland squad, Best was moved to another hospital yesterday morning after relatively inconclusive tests before a statement was issued by the IRFU around tea-time. "Following further tests carried out on Ireland prop