Title: ... p86 - Brian McTigue (p93) Prescott - Comments by Michael Wheeler, London

Cant recall where i heard this story, but it typifies how hard rugby league players were of years gone by.

The scene was central park wigan, the game, wigan Vs St.helens. All the talk in the build up to the game was about the brilliant young saints prop alan prescott, and how he'd fair against the ageing but still formidable Brian Mctigue..

as the first scrum packed down mctigue reaches up into prescotts jersey and grabs ahand full of armpit hair, which he yanks out of prescotts armpit, then politely whispers to prescott.. "nah then lad.. d'ost though want it hard?.. or d'ost though want easy?"...

tough men..

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