Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s biggest upsets

1= Old Reigatians 12 Saracens 10 (John Player Cup, 1987)

Lightning isn’t meant to strike twice but in 1987 that’s exactly what happened. The Old Reigatians – a maverick but defiantly amateur beer-swilling Old Boys team previously famed mainly for their spectacularly un-PC collage of Penthouse centre folds on their clubhouse ceiling – had already beaten Exeter and now they took on and beat another well-established senior club in Saracens.
They were an eclectic bunc...