Bloody Rivals Ready for Good, Clean Fun ; the World of Rugby

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BACK in the good old, bad old days of legalised mayhem, certain Anglo-Welsh matches rarely failed to keep the local casualty ward in needlework.

Too many referees used to turn a blind eye and even the best English teams tended to get a hiding, by fair means and foul. For some, the welcome in the hillside proved more trouble than it was worth.

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Bloody Rivals Ready for Good, Clean Fun ; the World of Rugby

Leicester, for example, cancelled their Easter Monday scrap at the then mighty Pontypool and even now, more than 20 years later, some of the old Tigers still talk about the annual 'bloo...

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