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Iconic Rugby Pictures: PART 8 Jean-Pierre Rives injured March, 1983

What’s happening here?
At first glance not a lot, it’s the ambience of this picture that is everything. France skipper Jean-Pierre Rives is taking a ‘moment’ after a hectic start in one of his last games as France captain, against Wales at the Parc des Paris in 1983. He has picked up a cut to the head – more of which anon – and is bleeding profusely, but not for a s...

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