Rugby's Most Violent Match of ALL TIME | Wales vs England 1987

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[rugbydrive]

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[robinwilson]

Good if only to hear Bill McLaren again - what a commentator!

[markblakeut]

What a shock to see Rob Andrew ignore the overlap and go for the kick.

[davidpenney]

The amount of high tackles the Welsh made was amazing and also using elbows and shoulders in the tackles.. Reckon half the team would if been sent off if it was 2022...amazing...

[alanjones]

Just typical of an eighties Wales v England match. Reds and yellows in abundance if played today.

[caeserromero]

The good old days of accountants, insurance salesmen and middle managers at ICI knocking seven bells out of each other and then getting royally pissed up in the pub afterwards 😂

[robertmiller]

Love to all from Christchurch, Canterbury, South Island of New Zealand!

[martya.]

Looking back at this as someone who played in that era, it was a better game - free flowing, fast and not blighted by the myriad rule changes which seem to make modern rugby more like American football. As for most violent match? That's just clickbait

[johnjkiwi]

Certainly there were lots of late tackles and off the ball incidents that today would warrant yellow or red cards but it was nowhere near as violent as the infamous 1971 Lions match versus Canterbury in NZ.

[peterwhent]

I remember the game. The most violent part isn't shown in this video. In one of the early line outs there is a huge fight. Phil Davies had his cheekbone broken by Wade Dooley and another one of the Welsh players (can't remember who) got a broken nose. I think a bunch of England players were banned by the RFU for their part in it. Richard Hill had the captaincy taken from him. Weird that a video entitled "Rugby's Most Violent Match of ALL TIME" doesn't show the violence.

[thadtuiol]

I was at that game and what this doesn't show is how close we came to having the Hillsborough disaster two years early. The bottom tier was badly overcrowded, they were having to pull people out from the front and to the side because they were having breathing difficulties from the crush. I remember one young lad panicked and had thrown up, and a middle aged woman was crying and begging the St. John's guys to pull her out. It's only because rugby crowds are relatively better behaved than football fans that no one died that day. Stadium management in the 80s was a dangerous joke.

[tobybarker]

Hardly the most violent...clickbait and I fell for it.

[willytee]

That was the era I played as well and one thing you notice is how heavy the pitches were even at international level ! Even my local club pitch is like a smoker table these days, what I would have given to play on a good surface, as a winger it was hard work to get moving in a quagmire lol !!

[huwlangford]

I was there and something that wasn't broadcast was the crush in the bottom tier . It was scary we were pulling people out and it could have been fatal.

[markbennett]

I went to that game, I remember driving from Dorset to Cardiff, it was snowing and on the car radio the dreadful news of the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster was breaking. I remember that tragedy more than the game which was dire because of what the bad weather did to the playing surface.

[E]

I would argue that the 1980 game at Twickenham was just as, if not more, violent!

[robkane]

The utterly cowardly elbow to Andrews head AFTER his kick

[anthonymoore]

thats the type of game i loved watching, modern rugby can't compete with this.

[neilcarpenter]

Totally missed out the major punch up when Dooley broke Phil Davies's jaw, normally in those days England just rolled over but that was the first time in ages that they fought fire with fire and was probably the start of England becoming a proper team even though it took a change in management and Captain before they started winning regularly.

[peterscaife]

I was at this game and I don’t remember it being particularly violent but then again I was in the stands not the pitch. My main memory is of my hub caps being stolen from my car in a car park! On my previous visit to Cardiff Arms Park, as it was then, in 1983 a Welshman behind me, obviously drunk, thought it quite amusing to urinate all over my trousers at the same time as I was trying to convince another Welshman that I didn’t drive to the match in my Rolls Royce! He was convinced I had!! I was only 20 something and I at first thought he was just having a laugh but after a bit I realised he was being serious. This person actually and genuinely thought I, as a 20 something year old, in cheap jeans, had a Rolls Royce. The mind boggles as to what brain washing about the English was done in Wales!