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Article: The Eddie Waring story: How one damp day at Wembley immortalised a legend
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- January 10, 2008
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In the first part of our exclusive serialisation of Being Eddie
Waring, The Life and Times of a Sporting Icon, author Tony Hannan
looks at the Challenge Cup final that made the BBC commentator's
name.
Watersplash. A famous name for a famous game.
In hindsight, Saturday, 11 May 1968 would have entered rugby
league folklore anyway. As the dark skies opened high above
Wembley's old twin towers, producing freak conditions more suited to
water polo than rugby, no one had ever seen anything like it.
Come kick-off, great pools of water covered the pitch. The
players, trying doggedly to beat the elements, aquaplaned through
puddles the size of Lake Windermere.
The saturated and slippery ball went ...