Ah, the good old days. Winterbottom casually kicks a trapped player in the head, all quite acceptable back in the day…

18 stone of pure Geordie manhood

Those were the days.

Wade Dooley what a machine.

Hang on mate, these guys were epic, world class in anyone’s book and rated by, of all people , the All Blacks…

I'm sitting here in 2022 watching this and let me tell you that if iur backs hadnt been so girly we would have dominated rugby union .....that pack was as good if not better than anyone else....my favourite pack selection ever....

Referees were biased for years and years ........ In football it was mr pool ......Thierry Rolland 😉 Then professionnalism came and things went better

When you look at that scrum now it’s amazing how little player safety was a priority, not to mention what went on in the rucks. That said I was 20 then and playing twice a week and adored it. Mind you, I wasn’t a forward, which helped. Played against a few of the England boys and the scariest, probably because of reputation, was Dooley. All the size and menace but no brains and back then had plenty of opportunities - and latitude - to get in cheap shot after cheap shot

Loved peter winterbottoms commitment but he loved a scrap too much 👍

Today, Peter Winterbottom would be sent off for the rest of his life for this offence... One of my worst remind of Rugby...

The French are just getting their comeuppance for all the years of cowardly cheap shots from behind that they were known for

thanks for this vid, . May i ask where do u think u will go when u die u dont have to answer if u dont want to?

il y a des arbitres qui n auraient jamais du exister...de vrais charognes

Stop fretting about this that and the other try and win the world Cup ps I'm welsh

It’s funny people complaining about the ref. ENGLAND beat France in every game between March 1989 and Feb 1995. At this time they were simply a better side.

turned the match

English players collapse the maul!!!! The referee can't see that ?

Rodriguez on Hika Reid - 1986. The end. See: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4m5qYh_r8yleck At 24 minutes. Actually - watch the whole game. One of the greatest matches ever.

How about the English player collapsing the maul. Not seen, how strange. Fucked up English bias comme tators

Mick the Munch, was not has good has he thought he was

Has- the French are complaining about the ref? England has beaten France three times in a row by the time this game was played.

French humiliation big time, they are so much better disciplined now. It all started from here.

I was ten, I think this is why I got into rugby. My nose is now in the wrong part of my face.

mick the munch

Fringing like a boss

such a tense game , i think this was the one where the ref. was assaulted in the tunnel at the end , by ondarts ?

Et jou tabé

2 minutes 23 seconds of nothing

good demo of tradicional and unnecessary french dirty play

Those were the days.....

Cecillon later murdered his wife.

A tackle that cost England a world cup. Had it not happened, Richards would not have been omitted.

My favourite tackle

During that sustained pressure on the England line, I remembered thinking that if France scored then, they would go on to beat the English, but in the end, they scored shortly afterwards but ended up losing..The English capitalised on the temper of the French and the French swallowed the bait...I wonder how the game would have changed had Berbizier and Camberabero been playing that day...Berbizier had a way of ensuring discipline

at that time, frenches could not win those games. Bishop definitely chose the winner of the day, nothing else to say. Knowing this, we should have play savage no matter the consequences.

should have been a penalty for teague clearly breaking early from the scrum

Mickey, you hero! All man!

winterbottom you f******g coward. Should have got 6 months for this.

@midianholic...fuck you...

Cecillon was probably better than Skinner with a gun, but here, unarmed, he comes a distant second.

oh me oh my, how rugby should be played......Teague was my favourite but what a team England had and should of won the final.....

Winterbottom did'nt have much speed but he was has hard as nails.

no

I think you mean the hit on Marc Cecillon the French No. 8, there was no such hit on St. Andre in this match.

it's in this clip

It's at 1:33

Too long ago to remember..sure it was in Paris,happened in the first few minutes,remember it kept st andre quiet for the rest of the game,England won of course! Great hit by the munch!

I believe Skinner should really have been penalised for not binding...

you didn't have to be back then, as long as you stayed at the back foot. scrum half was also allowed to dummy from the base to try and catch you offside, which isn't allowed now.

Skinner, Teague and Winterbottom were, and still are, a vastly underrated back row!