OLD Streetonians in London’s east end profess to having ‘a story like no other rugby club’, one formed by ‘artists and vagabonds’ in Shoreditch during the early Nineties.
Their other claim to fame (‘We Play Rugby Like No Other’) takes some justifying. They lived up to it on Hackney Marshes last weekend, at home to London Welsh a long way down from the Premiership in London’s third division, North- Western section.
In foul conditions, Old Streetonians fought their corner against a club fallen on hard times since the early Seventies when they co...