Who are your favourite sporting hard bastards? One fixture I always wished I’d been at, and would have been had I been about three years older was ‘World War III’ Warrington vs Wigan. The whole Warrington team at the time was pretty hard but more than anything just properly dirty, and the game was so infamous it got a write up in The Guardian a few years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/apr/15/my-favourite-game-warrington-v-wigan-1988-rugby-league

I particularly like a sequence where Andy Goodway has flattened Wire’s Paul Cullen in back play, physio comes on but Cullen decides to get up instead and floors Goodway from behind in a filthy move.

And this punch up…