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First-ever Cup final was turning point for Wasps

MOMENT IN TIME
WASPS 1985-86 JOHN PLAYER CUP FINALISTS
NEIL FISSLER TALKS TO MARK RIGBY

WASPS are one of the most successful sides of the professional era, but they were one of the capital’s unfashionable clubs for many years in the amateur period.
There was a time when the likes of Harlequins looked down their noses and refused to have them on their fixture list. However, in the early Thatcher years things were about to change.
Mark Rigby, a back rower in the 1980s and now Wasps president, says it was around this time that a seismic shift occurred after the club began to tap i...

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