Rugger back in 1985

[Cooperman]

I hadn’t heard of this incident until I came across it on Twitter. The ref basically said screw this and went for a pint, all played out in front of 10,000 fans.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2034938486109692236

 

[Smurph]

That's brilliant

 

[Cooperman]

That's brilliant

Had you seen it before?

 

[J_B]

I remember those days, when some English clubs used letters as opposed to numbers on their shirts.

 

[Smurph]

Had you seen it before?

No, that's the first I've ever heard or seen it.

Sometimes wish sport was like that today. I feel football has been over sanitised this today. The amount of money in sport is killing the joy of it.

 

[Cooperman]

I remember those days, when some English clubs used letters as opposed to numbers on their shirts.

Leicester were another club who did that, and Orrell RFC sticks in my mind as well (where the heck are they now?).

 

[Cooperman]

No, that's the first I've ever heard or seen it.

Sometimes wish sport was like that today. I feel football has been over sanitised this today. The amount of money in sport is killing the joy of it.

Simpler times

 

[Smurph]

Simpler times

True.

I love technology, I do get sad about how complicated life can be upon times though.

 

[Frankie Burrows Cap]

I remember those days, when some English clubs used letters as opposed to numbers on their shirts.

And Bath (I think) didn’t used to use number 13

 

[Pentyrchjack]

Thank you for showing that, never seen it before, fair play.

I remember watching the All Whites away at Ebbw Vale on a late summer afternoon and someone in the crowd collapsed, so everyone shouted "Clayton! Clayton!" to the referee (Mr Clayton Thomas) to get his attention and he called the club doctors who sprinted the width of the pitch to attend the spectator.