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I first came here when I was 13 on a family holiday and I loved it

“I first came here when I was 13 on a family holiday and I loved it. I have always admired Europe from the Roman Empire to the Industrial Revolution. “He nearly left us last season but he wanted to prove himself and show everybody what he’s capable of. He’s a very proud man.”One of the reasons Pichot rejected offers from Leicester and Newcastle is that, living in Twickenham, he is close to London. I want to play the best rugby I can play and then maybe do other things.”
Pichot’s passion is at present igniting Richmond and he may have a similar effect on Argentina in the World Cup next year. The London club did not so much sign a scrum-half as a philosopher. You won’t find him in the Rat and Firkin (he doesn’t drink) but you will find him listening to the London Symphony Orchestra.

Having studied law and marketing, he has just completed a business degree at Brunel University.”He’s a very intense guy who tends to get what he wants in life,” said John Kingston, the Richmond coach. “And I can’t say I’m going to carry on because if I don’t have this passion I won’t play I don’t know about the fire inside. It has nothing to do with money or the club but by next May the little Argentine scrum- half might decide that the passion play is over

“I have given so much to rugby,” he said. and told him the plan in four words: ‘I’m going to dive’.”Sure enough, Haden catapulted out of the line-out as the Wales hooker Bobby Windsor threw in.

Quittenton gave a penalty and Brian McKechnie landed the winning points.Quittenton insists that he penalised a line-out barge by the Wales lock Geoff Wheel and was not conned by Haden, telling Rugby News: “Haden’s perception is that his dive secured the penalty That is a load of rubbish.”. AGUSTIN PICHOT’S two-year contract with Richmond expires at the end of the season and he’s not sure whether to renew it. But in the cauldron that is the Arms Park during a Wales-New Zealand match, even Quittenton was struggling.”With Wales in front by 12-10, I knew there could only be a minute or so left I went to Frank Oliver, my locking partner… He had whistled other All Blacks matches I had played in and had always acquitted himself well. Writing in the November issue of Rugby News, Haden reveals: “The ‘plot’ was formulated during the white-hot lead-up to the Welsh Test. The referee that November afternoon was Roger Quittenton of England. Haden has revealed for the first time the full story of the infamous line-out “dive” in Wales’s defeat by New Zealand at Cardiff in 1978.