Sunday, 30 August 2009

Rugby in tights


SUPPOSEDLY the weirdest instance of on-pitch intimidation:
A bitterly cold night in Roehampton. Peter Warfield [Horsham Staff 77-79], Cambridge and England centre, was playing for Rosslyn Park in the days before thermal undergarments became de rigeur for the superstars. Warfield donned a pair of black ladies' tights to keep his legs warm, and the look on the face of the flanker who slid down Warfield's nylon-encased thighs as he tried and failed to make his first tackle of the evening was priceless. No one went near Warfield after that. Rugby players in tights? Leave it out.

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