MY LIFE IN RUGBY
BIRKENHEAD PARK HEAD COACH AND FORMER ENGLAND COUNTIES, WATERLOO, LEEDS TYKES, WAKEFIELD AND PERTEMPS BEES PROP
MARTIN O’KEEFE

STEVE Nutt, my former Waterloo and Lancashire teammate and a good friend of mine, always says when he rings me up, ‘how many clubs have you bankrupted?’ I played at a time when you could earn decent amounts of money and, as players, you take what’s on offer without realising if the club can afford it or not.
Wakefield, Waterloo, Orrell, Pertemps Bees… they all had financial problems, which the players at the t...