Warrington v Wigan, New Years Day 88. 2nd Half 

I am a Union man myself, but I have to say this is absolutely wonderful entertainment for fans of either code. No quarter is given by either side. A great game where everyone gave their all .... excellent stuff !!

I was at that match, I thought my heart was going to stop at times, probably the best game I’ve ever seen for sheer thunderous effort, guts and stamina. Boyd was awesome, Hanley too, the running feud between Cullen and Goodway was primeval. All in all fantastic.

This is Gold. Pure Gold. Warrington in that all white blue primrose V and Vladivar Vodka sponsor. Les Boyd in the front row with Kevin Tamati for gods sake, 2 of the hardest men ever to played rugby league. Add in Adrian Shelford in the prime of his career for wigan and Hanley playing in the centres in his Black Pearl stage My God you've got something here. Old Wilderspool under floodlights new years day a proper derby atmopshere of pure hatred amongst the players add in torrential rain and you've just got pure dare I say it rugby league. None of this modern day crap. Players wanted to win and fought to the end and battled unlike today where they dive and milk penalties. The old Fletcher Street end and the old Railway Away end just bouncing. I'm a Widnes fan of old and went Wilderspool many a time for those derbies which were superb, and I also went watch Warrington a fair few times when widnes were away. Some classy players on both sides way too many to mention. I'd have paid good money to have been at this match. RIP Old Wilderspool and the Winter New Years Day Derbies. Thank You for these magical memories of a better time.

I am amazed. Four players sent off and Les Boyd played all 80 minutes. And had a great game too.

What a game. Pure grit. ❤

used to watch rugby league with my nan on Saturday afternoons whilst my mum and dad were at the football, she used to say its a sh*te game but you get see some good punch ups...LOL

Proper Rugby League,,miss this !!

Incredible video, thankyou.

Ahhhhh man..I love watching sport from the 80's... commentary was on a different level back then.

I Just saw this now, this was an unreal game of football, plenty of passing in the wet and stepping tremendous stuff. What a game.

I was at that game. Remarkable - it had everything including being the only game that I attended wearing wellington boots as it was so wet.

Ellery Hanley , what a player .

proper rugby league

Brilliant; what a game.

Thanks for posting Bren

Football ( soccer ) and Cricket for me but when it comes to Rugby league is "my" code. More exciting and if I am honest its also a class thing

Brilliant! I’m proud to say “I was there”... God, we hated Warrington! Don’t get me wrong, Saints and Leeds weren’t exactly on the Christmas card list but we really hated Warrington... and didn’t the players know it!! ❤️❤️❤️

The days of proper ruggers, not like today's crap...Love the kids at the end....Those were the days

I never liked either of these sides, but I have to admit that was a great match, from the days when rugby league was a winter game. I am afraid that it lost a lot of its appeal for me when it became a summer sport and television money was thrown at the game. I know the pitches are better now and the players are much fitter, but I can't help feeling that the game has lost much of its soul. The gap between Super League and the rest has grown far too wide, as Leigh have found out recently. Back in the 1980s, the clubs that got promoted usually went straight back down, but they did win enough matches to make it interesting.

This was a time when I could understand the rules :)

Thanks for sharing this great match. Been years since I saw rugby league. Some amazing players from that era. How much would Gregory, Edwards, Hanley and the likes make in the modern union code?

Very good commentator. Very good game.

Bloody good game that. And I know nothing at all about rugby league.

Great stuff. How good was Les Boyd even a decade past his best? Funny that Graeme West played the whole game. He was the one who started it all. He wanted to kill someone right from the first tackle.

what a cracking blood and thunder match, that les boyd was some player and to think it was all in the mud

Great game , some great players in both teams there. Bring back the biff lol

The mighty WIRE 💪🏼🏉

Good football. Very expansive.

Fantastic 👍🏼 ✨ ✨

What a tremendous game. It could’ve gone either way.

A good game in those conditions🏈

Classic game this. Horrible conditions yet relatively clean play (skills wise) and a frenetic pace.

brillllllllliant

Rugby League has gone sadly downhill since those days.

My goodness commentary has come a long way since then. Thank goodness.

Hero .... Iro ( and as Kenny Everett would say) ...., let call the whole thing ooooffffffff!

WIRES WIRES !!

back in the day proper rugby league.

I´m a catalonian rugby fan . Incredible rugby match, 100% rugby !!! but , were allow these lot of high tackles in all matches?

Real Rugby league 👍 None of these robots that play game now.

Wat great athletes

You can see that Wigan had the money back then. Clean dry shirts for the second half. How those players were pampered eh?!!! Lmao.

Just slightly sped up?

That’s when rugby was rugby

Little kids running on after autographs! You wouldn't get that nowadays

The commentator was needing 2 tickets to Nottingham .

Tremendous handling in terrible conditions. A proper game of rugby league. Not as good now.

who is the crap commentator? they're going for the line, they're going for the line, they're going for the line- - isn't that the general idea ?

Edwards hall of famer....what a joke....

This commentator is bloody hopeless, surely there must have been someone better?

Brutal 😡

Fantastic 👍🏼 ✨ ✨