Rugby's Most Violent Match of ALL TIME | France vs England 1992

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[Rugby Drive]

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[Ian Graham]

The game changed for the worse when it went professional with the "avoid losing at all costs" attitude, which led to teams consisting of 15 props who can't tackle properly but somehow stop the opposition advancing. The speed and athleticism of all the players was a joy to behold in this video - but most violent of all time?? No way, and no need to dress it up as such.

[James Walter]

Golden age of rugby right there.Free flowing, full of action and drama. Rugby went downhill from 1995 😢

[Jared Rika]

Yup I agree, personally I liked the rules best in 96! I tell my son about rucking and he thinks that is insane!! 😂

[Max Cullen]

Truth just hearing those names heart starts fastening 🏉🏉

[LD Freitas]

Yes! Now there are a few clubs that aren't cutting it financially, because top players have to be paid to play since 1995. Beforehand, one played for the fun of it, not for financial reward, and if there was any reward, it was in the form of a job, car, maybe a place to live (France), maybe some Ls (sorry, I'm in America) in the boot (Wales). And in America, there were once semi-pro teams of various sports, like basketball, American football, softball, mostly company teams, and they'd have been considered professionals by the Rugby Union.

[Thad tuiol]

I love that most of the players back then (with the exception of a few 'shamateurs') were just ordinary blokes working day jobs, who you could often just have a drink with after a game, and I include even the internationals players. Everything felt so much more real back then, like you were part of a community.

[mufuliramark]

I played rugby from late 70’s, 80’s,90’s and played my last game when I was 49. Those rugby days were far better than todays rugby. My four sons currently play and even they say they wished they could have played that style.

[speed demon955]

yes !! that was when men were men and we all knew what a woman was !!

[Moggy471]

@speed demon955 Yes! They wore numbers 9-15 😁

[J Coker]

@speed demon955 Most of us still do !

[Super Villan]

I met Brian Moore in a bank two days after this match. His face was so bruised and swollen, it took me at least 5 secs to recognise him despite being only 2ft away. I can therefore attest to how brutal this match was, having personally witnessed the aftermath.

[Ronan Rogers]

Players were noticeably more mobile in this era…natural athletic physiques, clearly spending more time skills training than lifting weights.

[Smilodon Tiger]

Not the most violent (I have seen much worse) but it has to be said there was some beautiful running rugby ..... so much better to watch than what we get today.

[david spendlove]

Is it me or is the rugby from this period just better.Lower tackles better rucks , more handling skills , and all this from amateurs.

[DARTH MONG]

Thing is, to my knowledge, none of the guys from this period have suffered with dementia or from long-term effects of concussion. They weren't giant mutants who hit guys for a job; they were regular guys who had to be back at work on Monday morning. Food for thought.

[hafid kouloun]

It was!

[John Nunn]

Yeah and they didn’t have the protective rules, that today’s players enjoy.

[Big Dave]

Lower tackles means the hands are free to offload. I think a tackler would seek to prevent that.

[eze kiel]

No it wasn't, back then was a stop and go sport

[A J]

This genuinely surprises me how fast and frantic rugby was. Reminds me of rugby league in a way.

[oliver69cork]

A wonderful game back then,the flowing passing game was a joy to watch unlike today's awful robotic bulldozer brutality. Today its weight,impact and far less exciting.

[JS2000]

This is absolutely brilliant rugby. The running, rucking, teamwork etc. Loads of very hard tackling, but that's fine. Anyone who watched games like this fell in love with rugby. One thing though. Look at 3.00. Completely unacceptable and it was people like him who were a disgrace to the game. I'm Glad we're away from that era. Thugs hiding under the mantra of "hardmen" or "enforcers". Its a shame as loads of class players had their moments of brilliance overshadowed by brawls or skullduggery which of course were "part of the game" according to the blazers scoffing the free buffet. Even back then, I had a read through the rule book and couldn't find anything about allowing that. Was the amateur era brilliant to play and watch - absolutely. Do I look back on the behaviour of certain people with rose tinted glasses - certainly not.

[it woz not me]

now this is the rugby i grew up watching! micky skinner...........always a legend for 'that tackle'!

[TrebleBBB]

The one where the Munch picked up a player and walked him back? 1991 world cup? Memory says semi in Paris, could be wrong on that point.

[RH]

@TrebleBBB You're not wrong. It was Skinner on Cecillon, while that brute Eric Champ stood there and watched.

[S D]

@TrebleBBB Quarters, not semi and it was Marc Cecillon.

[BH - Exercise as Medicine]

The French Centres and Backs were incredible 🎉

[gael saussereau]

Penaud, Skrela has sons. 😊

[RH]

I'm just going to come right out and say it. Rugby back then, as a sport, as a thing to play and watch and follow, was way better than the rugby today.

[River Wolf]

100 percent more exciting

[Matthew Brown]

Was more about speed, skill, fitness and technique in those days, now its all about strength, power and forcing your way through the opposition rather than trying to get around them.

[Derek Devaney]

The way the French used to run the ball... beautiful

[Strangelynatured]

Amen

[Mimo Slavich]

@Matthew Brown australian coaches, from eddie jones onwards, were big rugby league fans and hence why they run straight at the lines now.

[JohnG11000]

At sixty four years old it's only the last few years that i got interested in rugby particularly the Internationals,looking at this old footage I have to agree, what a game that was.

[aj]

England actually played fast and expansive open and exciting rugby?Wtf happened?

[Paul Mulryne]

They lost a grand slam at Murrayfield and that style went out of the window the next season 😢

[Jack Wilson]

Jeez, you don’t rugby like this anymore; fast, fluid and full of action. Today’s rugby is not even worth watching

[Monty F]

The rule changes have ruined this great game. Professional clubs now struggling to survive. Surely it's time to bring back an amateur code with all the old rules. Rucking, mauling, proper scrums, no lifting at lineouts, 5 minute turnaround etc etc.

[Exparcelman]

Rugby as I remember it. I had forgotten what an exciting game it used to be.

[maxwellfan55]

Yea, I'm an oldie who remembers this game (and all the others of same era) with massive fondness. What it didn't show were the scrums in this match which, believe me, were really fu..ing brutal!

[Thomas Dillon]

I started playing in 93. My college team had a clubhouse and a few imported rugby magazines. There was an advert with Brian Moore's face bearing his teeth with the caption "It's not the winning, it's the taking apart." I think it was a Nike ad. I tried to get the poster for years but never could. I find it interesting that all these years later with all those speed and strength programs test rugby isn't as flowing and fast as this game. You'd think the opposite would be true. However, I think some Pro 14 and Premiership rugby games have more style and flow.

[Bastien Constans]

The players are flying what a beauty is this not even France or NZ could play like this today , ( they are the two team with the most beautiful an living ball in game )

[Mark Saunders]

A great match, but hardly the most violent. Duncan McRae repeatedly punching Ronan O'Gara in the eye whilst he was prone on the ground during a Lions match in Australia in 2001 was way worse than this.

[Annoying B'stard]

The French team of this era was the most exciting I’ve seen.

[owen farmer]

How did France finish that with so many players. Great spectacle and we accepted it as normal on every pitch from colts locally to internationals. Did our generation have anger issues?

[John Healy]

I was there What a brilliant game of rugby We had a great time The French took it in good heart Happy Days

[mudbath142]

gotta say some of the skills on show here are better than what a lot of the so-called professionals you see today have

[Philzoid]

Non sense

[maxwellfan55]

Agree. The linking between forwards and backs especially slick.

[pacmantuition102]

it may look that way because these guys on average are about 20-30kg's lighter than the current professionals, but the skill levels of current professionals are light years ahead of the amateur era.

[Olivier Liburuzainak]

WOW, the speed of the game !!! Very fast, very quick : very different than the actual rugby now.

[neverindoubt Jones]

France in full flow were a thing of beauty.

[Gwyn Maverick James]

Brutal tackling fluent passing on the run ,from both sides what teams they were

[Ash Gamble]

I'm now 51 and still have ruck scars on my back and I wear them with pride good times

[speed demon955]

you are now a member of the rucking good real mans club !!

[dojufitz]

So many Sports Worldwide have lost their MOJO since the 1990s. Looked like an awesome game.

[Paul Mulryne]

I remember watching this when I was about 14 😂 great rugby.

[D V]

From an era when rugby WAS rugby. Hookers hooked, fly halves still danced, penalties were run, backs lined up deep and ball handling was so much better.

[Neil Carpenter]

There's a lot to admire about the modern professional player and there are some great games, however I have to admit that I preferred the game in this era it was Raw and was decided by players rather than officials interpretation of the laws , bring back rucking already.

[Trillia Robinson]

And not a TMO in sight .... so fast-flowing and exciting.

[Big Dave]

So you think the referee didn't miss anything?

[LD Freitas]

Yes, not stoppages to check a referee's decision. A ref had to make a decision quickly and stand by it.

[jim bryan]

Winterbottom was an unbelievable player.

[British Patriot]

I was at Headingley in the early eighties when he was progressing through First XV, Yorkshire, Northern Division, England, British Lions. I had the great honour to be barged out of the way by him many times at the back of the line out at training. In a different game against France he had an interesting tussle with Jean Pierre Rives. His brother Michael was a decent player too. I only saw them play together once, they played left and right as opposed to open and blind side. That may have been the same game against Liverpool when Kenny Higgins (Headingley, Yorkshire) caught Mike Slemen from behind for a try saving tap tackle.

[Gary Browne]

Agreed

[Le Plessis]

A hard man, indeed. The quiet destroyer.

[Gerald Mohabir]

It was brutal but interesting to see the natural tackle height was so much lower than today.

[Stuart McNamara]

When rugby was rugby.

[the fobbie003]

Peter Winterbottom is by far England's best 7 ever!

[Scott Abbott]

If I'm right, this was the first time we had beaten the French 🇫🇷 in France for 22 years. It was at the Parc des Prince. If I'm right, I was there, don't remember too much. Apart from waking up in a shop doorway in the Pigalle area of Paris 40 feet from my hotel

[ramius]

Mission de Brian Moore dans ce match ? Faire dégoupiller ( provoquer) les français...mission accomplie 😄.

[neil herring]

Modern international Rugby is full of stoppages, and pendantic rules, that nobody can understand.

[LD Freitas]

Try to referee? I still do. It's gotten harder to do every year because there's so many law changes every stinking year.

[Bosvark D]

Great game to watch.. but take a look at the sa v Ireland game in 98.. every ruck turned into a mass brawl and it went on all game

[Emosi Jo Ugavule]

Rugby at its prime age.

[Ise River]

Look at the speed of the game.

[maxwellfan55]

Yea, the stop/starts, evaluating decisions have dulled the flow and excitement.

[chowangmoh]

I thought the video was sped up!! So fast.

[Vatsuggggg]

That’s what caught my eye

[Sergio Dario]

Infact it's not normal, it's just a trick. The video is played at higher speed. If you go to settings and set the speed at .75% that's what the real speed of the game is.

[Ronald CARLTON]

63 years old & loved my time playing in them ,Struggling now with Neck & Spine Problems ,But would do it All Again .

[imeatingafunnyfinger]

Just look at that free flowing rugby with 30 guys giving it their all and two teams Laing fantastic rugby

[owenloz]

Bring this back….pure entertainment!!!

[Max Cullen]

Remember this amazing game both teams had passion just hope managed to have few beers together after game it rugby 🏉 thug on field gentlemen off 🏉 all those old names oh so many memories 🏉

[Sthembiso Vilakazi]

Battle of Tucuman and SA vs Canada in the 1995 world cup those were brutal.

[Deco Deco]

Absolutely beautiful game......wow! And Mick the Munch, what a fkn player he was! 😳😉

[Thomas Probert]

It's just not the same game anymore. This was like modern 7s but with 15 players

[Le Plessis]

With the 'Halifax Hooligan' on our side, we always came out on top. Nice one, Brian.

[Philip Leiser]

Newish fan checking in from the States...I have no idea why my friends bother with the NFL after watching stuff like this. I like today's game well enough, but man, I can see why people talk about this being a Golden age. Speed, ball movement, hits, and yeah, some dirty play for spice. Hard to beat. Now I want to watch the whole match...

[Stevethebeard]

That last pass to Guscott was forward.

[van Rensburg Architecture & BIM]

2hrs in, and I'm still waiting for the violence...looks like a normal game of rugby, for a Bok fan at least.

[RobRoyBoaz]

We all don't have to be Neanderthals.

[KezzerT]

Yeah we all know Boks are as hard as the proverbial, heard it time and time again … zzzz

[Me]

Boks are wimps

[dulls]

@KezzerT I find Bok fans have a very low self esteem which is surprising as their team is very good.

[RobRoyBoaz]

@KezzerT Biggest. Toughest. Meanest. Fearless. 🤣

[thinkdabub]

Holy fuck! .25 speed from 3:07. Number 3, Philippe Gimbert for France. Absolutely destroys the English player attempting to catch the ball. Impact at 3:09.

[Bastien Constans]

Waw the way they are playing is more beautiful than today , there is huge talented player there

[Ordo Heritcus]

How come back then the ball was recycled quicker than today's game. Even though these are just highlights just look what happens when players go into contact and the speed at which the ball is recycled!

[Ben Johnston]

Because the choke tackle wasn't a thing, forwards were a lot smaller, and you were allowed to clear players out by basically using your body as a missile. Teams also used chaos as a weapon whereas now it's much more about structure.

[chowangmoh]

The rules for rucking were different. Once the tackler was on the ground no hands could be used (legally). The ball was rucked (scraped) back with the studs of your boots. Whatever was on the floor got rucked back... if it was the ball or another player! none of this jackelling to close off the ruck.

[S D]

Because back in those days, the team going forwards got the ball if it didn't come out. That meant the defensive focus had to be on stopping momentum, not trying to steal or kill the ball. For my money, getting rid of the "team going forward" law was the single worst change in the history of the game.

[the fobbie003]

Because of rucking!

[Francis O'Donoghue]

Yeah..you had to drop the ball as soon as you hit the ground. Nowadays you hold onto it until someone takes it off you

[Martin Craig]

Guscott wasn’t slow but Underwood was just flying there

[RH]

Two legends

[Olivier Pegasus]

Flying was also his job as a fighter pilot

[Marc Daniels]

Guscott blew a try not passing left to Underwood.

[Big Dave]

Guscott was carrying the ball, preparing to pass (but didn't), so couldn't run as fast as Underwood who was flat out.

[Betty Swunghole]

From back in the day when England wasn't ashamed of its "toxic masculinity"...

[Tommy Hassan]

I would put winterbottom up there with the best flankers of all time

[-Trajan-]

Ahhh the good old days before they started bringing in all these unnecessary and stupid rules that just slow the game down and make it a stop start affair not to mention they're turning rugby into tiddlywinks or soccer with all the stupid cards they're handing out Bill the Fossil Beaumont and his old boys club need to go before they ruin rugby even more

[Rugbysphere]

Un Crunch vraiment engagé! Avec Tordo en #6, au four et au moulin!

[F Sutcliffe]

I’ve got to say that was like wait to the racking that used to go on, I reminder seating at work with 3 of my colleagues and all of us counter the stub marks on our body’s

[the fobbie003]

When rugby was rugby!

[Ronald CARLTON]

Played my Last forty Minutes at 60 years old in a Charity game ,Loved it but could walk properly for 2 days .

[Gavin Townsend]

Being English happy to say " I was there" but in the French supporters end. A mixture of joy and terror.

[Marc Daniels]

France prop kicks Carling in the head off the ball before being sent off but apart from that just bloody great fast free flowing rugby on show.

[Mra Rednu]

Bayfield with the boot to the face ?

[Horror Tackle Harry]

This game was so violent, it featured an actual murderer.

[Terence Ayer]

C'mon!! This was far more civilised than today's American Boxing,....😂😂

[Dennisthemenace]

By the end of the 90's the game had changed so much for the worse that I stopped watching and no longer can name a single Wallaby

[Fire Man]

Nope South Africa vs Argentina in the late 70s if I remember correctly. The games tarted with a fight and ended in the entire stadium attacking the South African team

[Robert Miller]

Wow such great players! I love France except when we play them at RuuuGGGGBBByyy!

[Destroying DHWH]

England a nation of real heroes and fighters 👌

[Paul Grieve]

Flowing rugby pure skill

[Kevin Coyle]

I know it's highlights but....the game looks so much more Helter Skelter back then

[Candido De Manchuria]

You need to cover Argentina - France 2nd test, 1988 series.

[MarcoPolo282]

Just an everyday match of AFL really except those guys run half marathons and can be hit from anywhere not just infront in like this sport

[John Lamb]

Rugby was a better sport IMO before lifting in line-outs was allowed, when rucks were fully contested, and scrumhalfs could not feed the hooker. I do like the yellow card and the rules designed to protect against reckless contact and head injuries.

[Dean Ogilvie]

I saw 8 trangressions in the 1st phase alone 🤣

[Lee Turton]

The game was epic back then epic!!! I say👊

[Russe]

I do like watching the French when they're on

[John Smith]

Hey? One thing that puzzles me? I grew up in NZ in the 80s playing rugby as a kid. Every single damn kid in town played rugby, whether you were a regular sport Billy or an absolute unco geek. There was a soccer team. But those guys were just weird. Also half of them played rugby aswell. What I'm getting at is, Why is soccer so popular and the mainstream sport in the UK? I mean, rugby is clearly more fun, it's physical for starters, you get to physically smash your mates or some random kid from another town or school and it's all perfectly legal. Why in the world would you choose Not to play this awesome fun and glorious game and instead play a game that the good Lord clearly invented purely as a womens only participation game? Why is Rugby or Rugby League Not the dominant sport in the UK?

[ENEMDE]

I didn't see anything wrong with this match apart from the stamp by the French player. Otherwise it was how rugby SHOULD be played !

[Mick Downs]

Likewise. The Boks would surely be included in any list of brutal matches.

[Gaspar Wimb]

Beautiful chaos

[Christian Gerhardt]

Oh rugby where have you gone violent and skilfull friend.

[Gavin Foreman]

It's becoming clear that us Anglo's are losing our identity! Physically and fights have just become hand bags matches now days. All our sports are just becoming boring. All you hear is 'the beautiful game'. I want to see Anglo's destroying every one, putting the fear into every one like our forefather's did.

[Charles Taylor]

I’m still waiting for some hard rugby - this is a tickling competition lol 😂 normal game of rugby hahahaha - from a South African Bok 🇿🇦 only us South Africans and Pacific Islanders can produce hardcore domination and pure violence 👍👍😎

[Amesys]

smh

[it woz not me]

see the bodies after the match. way more physical than today. and they had jobs too!!!

[Me]

Boks wimps

[rdg rdg]

Proud of that are you

[Bobby]

0:33 Lascubé starting things off nicely

[Terrance Parsons]

Brian Moore. Might be short but I wouldn't want to annoy him!

[Andy Andy]

Why does it look so fast pace lol 😅

[Simon Taylor]

Ball seems to have Fairy Liquid on it.

[Keith Merrick]

Shame that the proportions are all wrong. Everyone is as wide as they are tall and everything is at 100mph. I suppose there must be a technical reason why it's not possible to have the correct proportions but it's still a shame.

[Dean Loveridge]

Looks like it’s in fast forward in parts.

[Tristan Patterson]

Pfffft, have a look at Samoa V New Zealand same era. 80 minutes of GBH.

[Phil Bo]

That’s the result of your forwards having alcohol in their systems after going on the p!ss the night before, then denying your backs nicotine for 80 minutes. 🍺 🚬

[XXLaffinGravyXX]

Mick Skinner ....LEGEND end of !!!!

[Kees]

I think battle of Nantes just entered the chat room