At the very moment when William Webb Ellis first demonstrated his glorious disregard for the rules, picked up the ball and ran with it, it is easy to imagine a couple of grumpy old punters on the Rugby School touchline shaking their heads like the Muppets' Waldorf and Statler as they voiced the opinion that the selfish wee bugger should have kicked for the corner instead.
At the very moment when William Webb Ellis first demonstrated his glorious disregard for the rules, picked up the ball and ran with it, it is easy to imagine a couple of grumpy old punters on the Rugby School touchline shaking their heads like the Muppets' Waldorf and Statler as they voiced the opinion that the selfish wee bugger should have kicked for the corner instead.
Weir enjoys rivalry with Jackson
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Alasdair Reid
So it has always been in a sport whose playmakers might just as well have been dipped in Marmite as linament so precisely do they divide opinions. And the history of rugby is rich in rivalries between those whose instincts led them into acts of buccaneering bravado and those who preferred cautious conservatism instead; a battle between derring-do and derring-don't, you might say.
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