Bloodgate was brazen – with comic moments

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

Winker: Harlequins wing Tom Williams walks off with physio Steph Brennan

Head hunted: Brian O’Driscoll is carried off after dislocating his shoulder

Inset, the Calcutta Cup after its 1988 kick about
TOP 20 …RUGBY SCANDALS
NEXT WEEK Watering Holes
1. Bloodgate (2009)
Scandals come and go but this is the one that still resonates, a strange mix of outand- out cheating in the heat of battle with the hint of an old school prank that nearly worked and even a few comic elements althou...

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