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Police escort put us on glory road

MY LIFEIN RUGBY
NIGEL POMPHREY
THE FORMER BRISTOL AND ENGLAND XV LOCK
ALL three of our Cup Finals appearances in the 1980s were memorable occasions – it was a very big deal back then, before the start of the Leagues – and the city would empty and travel en masse to Twickenham for a big day out in London.
When we reached our first final, against Leicester in 1983, we underestimated how big a deal it was and very nearly didn’t make it! On the morning of the match our coach got stuck in grid-locked traffic and with about an hour to go, we were still only at Kew Gardens.
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