South Africa vs England at Twickenham in 2002 produced one of the dirtiest games in the professional era. Rough play was employed by Butch James, Robbie Fleck and the Springbok captain Corne Krige, with Johnny Wilkinson, Jason Robinson, Matt Dawson and Phil Christophers the targets of the worst of it on the English side.
Is this the most brutal rugby match in the professional era?
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I decided to introduce rugby to my German girlfriend and took her to an Irish bar to watch this game. If my memory serves me correctly, 3 English and 1 Bok had to leave the pitch to have cuts tended to in the first half. At half time my girlfriend asked me if rugby “was a real sport” 😜
When have the springboks been any different ….never !!!
Quel Brutalie missa missa 😊😂
Dirty horrible bastards xx
Thugs game.
SA were thugs with rugby shirts that day, they could have killed someone, they got what they deserved that day a good hiding, ……
England can fn complain , it's rugby
The problem is that if you allow one team to play like that, you should tell the other team that it's ok to do the same.
We just brought back the DNA of Rugby as it was played over a hundred years ago so that it could be archived. We knew that the shite rules that were to follow would turn the sport into a foolsball spectacle.
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maybe ireland bayonne 2007 friendly was nasty game where irish got punched and all that wayne barnes was the ref that day and lost control of the game
Damn thats some serious violence. No wonder their were so many concussion effects.
Is it possible to have full match plz ?
When rugby became footballs Johnny Wilkinson completely milking it for the red card. Of course cannot in anyway condone the rest of the nonsense.
was never a red card. Krige should have been sent off at least 5 times. Paddy had no clue or grip on this game.
Une boucherie
Loving it, go Bokke!! If you can’t handle it , go play football
The worst SA team ever to step on the field. I think the score was 53-3. It was the end of a terrible season for them
I suppose this shows the difference between being hard and being a thug.
I think SA lost the by something like 200 to 0
Patio Bryan (as we used to say) had an absolute shocker here. The high hit on Dawson could easily have ended his career or worse. Awful rugby.
Ouais! les sudafs étaient un peu taquins ! mais qui "aime bien "châtie "bien , ça a entraîné les rosbeefs ,puisqu'ils ont gagnés la coupe du monde l'année suivante! C'est de "l'amour" tout ça !
Thats South Africa for you they don't know how to play beautiful rugby, only to put as many of the opposition in hospital as possible dirty cheats.
South African rugby being dirty? No way?! That’s not like them at all, this must all be VFX
Back when rugby was a game played by men! 💪🏻👍🏻
Nowadays rugby rules are changed and are making rugby a soft sport.