At this year's Rugby World Cup Final on 28th October, the winner of the Webb Ellis Cup will be celebrating 200 years after William Webb Ellis's sporting breakthrough.
In 1823, Webb Ellis, in the words of the commemorative stone at his old school, ‘with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran … thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby Game.’
Or did he? There's a degree of
