Scotland Beware: The Real Star of Irish Rugby Is Fit and Raring to Go ; Mesmeric Murphy Is the Man to Fear, Says Spellbound Richards...

Daily Mail › February 17, 2005

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DEAN RICHARDS will never forget the day he first saw the mesmerising talent of the player he calls ' the George Best of British and Irish rugby'.

The England stalwart was coming to the end of his outstanding career in the Leicester back row when Bob Dwyer, the then Tigers coach, returned from a scouting trip to Ireland raving about an 18- year-old fullback he'd spotted playing for Newbridge College in Kildare.

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Scotland Beware: The Real Star of Irish Rugby Is Fit and Raring to Go ; Mesmeric Murphy Is the Man to Fear, Says Spellbound Richards...

A few short weeks later, with an unexpected injury crisis at Welford Road, a callow Geordan Murphy found himself ru...

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