Article: The Eddie Waring story: How one damp day at Wembley immortalised a legend

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 ...

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