16 mud-splattered photos of truly appalling rugby pitches

As anyone who’s spent any amount of time playing Saturday rugby will be able to tell you, you can do an awful lot worse than a plastic pitch…

1.Playing rugby in the mud, 1960

2. We are not afraid to get their hands dirty

A rugby player slides on a muddy field

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3. What. On. Earth.

4.A resident makes use of a flooded pitch near Rugby

5. First team training goes ahead at Keswick

6. Boys play rugby on a flooded pitch in Sydney

7. This doesn't seem right...

8. Rodney Parade at it's best/worst.

9.Bury ladies thrive in baptism of mud

10.A mud-bath at Athletic Park.

11. Try yes or no?

12. Muddy kids having the time of their lives

13.A Very Muddy Rugby Player Sat On The Pitch Looking Dejected

14. Fran Cotton, whose mud-caked face became one of the defining images of rugby 

15. Multi-use pitch

16.Floods turn school's artificial pitch into bizarre rippling wasteland 

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