One man who made sure he went the distance

PETER JACKSON

There have been no shortage of X-certificate England-Wales matches, notably the notorious 1980 scrap at Twickenham when all manner of grevious bodily harm took place before Paul Ringer walked for a comparatively genteel late tackle.
Had the warring neighbours intended to top the gratuitous violence of another England-Wales match five years earlier, they could hardly have made a better fist of it. The Battle of Brisbane during the 1975 Rugby League World Cup set a blood-curdling standard.
According to reports, England hooker Mick Morgan of Featherstone Rovers took so much puni...

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