16 mud-splattered photos of truly appalling rugby pitches

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

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

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15. Multi-use pitch

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

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