";s:4:"text";s:5591:" The old adage of having a rough and tumble time out on the pitch and then sorting it out over a few beers afterwards didn’t seem to apply this time.“What Paul Ringer did was nothing compared to what went had gone on before from both sides. That was his speciality. Share You can unsubscribe at any time. The coaching and the preparation have made it all so intense these days.”The Wales v England game sparked some big headlines in 1980When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Public Health England say England's decision to exclude prop Mako Vunipola from their Six Nations match with Wales as a precautionary measure against coronavirus was "unnecessary". This item will be sent through the Global Shipping Programme and includes international tracking. It was just a glancing blow and on television it looked worse than it was. Some of it was skulduggery, other stuff was just reckless.“It’s my recollection that Paul never touched John Horton – and I was coming up behind him.“As an outside half you always expected to get a bump from the opposing No 7, just so that he could let you know he was around. I remember going into the Welsh dressing room after the game and going up to the lads that I had known, shaking hands and having a beer. It was nothing – he did not even go down. But I think it was intentional. The Wales v England game that 'shamed rugby' in the 1980s amid fears someone would be killed. In February 1980, Wales faced England in a match that history would not forgetGet the latest Welsh rugby news sent straight to your inbox It’s been labelled the most explosive 13 minutes in rugby history, the day February 16, 1980. United Kingdom and many other countries I could not stop. England’s win just allowed him to have the bragging rights when we all got back to the Cardiff dressing room.“It was a pretty tasty opening to the game and then Paul Ringer got sent-off. But there had been a warning and, I suppose, someone had to be sent off.“It was Peter Wheeler who got me sent off. The programme is crumpled along left hand edge throughout, otherwise clean and unmarked. Unfortunately for Wales, he was able to keep his nerve and kick the injury time penalty that made it 9-8.“There was an eerie feeling about the whole day and the game certainly wasn’t played in the right spirit.
I thought it was an amazing decision.“Paul was an out-and-out openside who made his reputation by intimidating outside halves. The referee had said that the next time something happened he would send someone off and he did. He used to try to intimidate the outside half and put the fear of God into him during a game, but his incident with John Horton certainly wasn’t the worst in the game.“Paul was an uncompromising character who was always very vocal on the field. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. The annoying thing was we didn’t play well.“Paul Ringer probably didn’t deserve to get sent-off, it was just an accumulation of bits and pieces.