When Cambridge rugby club met Ding Crusaders this weekend in the National League Two South game in England, it wasn't so much rugby as mud wrestling.
'It was muddy' - the accurate headline & picture on @camrufc's website after a low-scoring 5-0 win at Dings. #rugby pic.twitter.com/PjTWCwz7YK
— BBC Cambs Sport (@BBCCambsSport) January 19, 2015
In the equivalent of the Ulster Bank Division 2B league, Cambridge's win leaves Dings at the foot of the table after a game even the purists would have been frustrated at. A deluge of rain in the Bristol area left the pitch close to unplayable, but these hearty souls carried on regardless.
Fortunately for us, the Cambridge Rugby Twitter account was there to record the evidence:
Muddy conditions at Dings but game on pic.twitter.com/BvPFgBCYzJ
— Cambridge RUFC (@camrufc) January 17, 2015
Things got worse as the match started however:
— Cambridge RUFC (@camrufc) January 17, 2015
Then came the first score of the game:
Try for @jimwigglesworth after great work & break from @JStokes_
— Cambridge RUFC (@camrufc) January 17, 2015
The crowd went wild:
— Cambridge RUFC (@camrufc) January 17, 2015
The jerseys were holding up well:
— Cambridge RUFC (@camrufc) January 17, 2015
But then the weather got worse:
— Cambridge RUFC (@camrufc) January 17, 2015
And the game suffered:
This is more like trench warfare........
— Cambridge RUFC (@camrufc) January 17, 2015
And suffered:
More trench warfare with lots of knock ons, high kicks, and tackling
— Cambridge RUFC (@camrufc) January 17, 2015
Giving the social media expert behind the Twitter account a chance to shine:
Just knocked on over the Line :(
— Cambridge RUFC (@camrufc) January 17, 2015
Before things descended into farce:
So it's the black strip playing the black strip........
— Cambridge RUFC (@camrufc) January 17, 2015
— Cambridge RUFC (@camrufc) January 17, 2015
This kind of sums it all up:
— Cambridge RUFC (@camrufc) January 17, 2015
The game finished 5-0, and huge credit was given the referee Claire Hodnett were her outstanding ability to distinguish between players at the breakdown given the matching sets of jerseys. Hodnett is the first female referee to be appointed to the RFU's national panel of referees, 7 months before Helen O'Reilly did the same on the IRFU National Panel of Referee's.
H/T BBC
