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The Aviva Premiership has provided rugby with a new low point in a match between Gloucester and Bath.
The quality of rugby in the match was reported as despairing, and the refereeing did little to improve the situation.
The match saw an incredible number of penalties handed out, along with five yellow cards and two red cards. Gloucester finished the match with just eleven men on the field.
The match spiralled out of control following a contentious decision by referee, Tim Wigglesworth, early in the match when he disallowed a Bath try. The decision planted a seed of frustration in the Bath squad that took little time to surface.
The disallowed try was run over by Horacio Agulla, who received the ball after Matt Banahan made a decoy run allowing George Ford to sneak a pass behind to Agulla. Wigglesworth ruled that the Bath players had crossed.
Tensions boiled over with a furious punch up late in the match. The following amateur footage captured the brutal encounter.
A pitch invader wearing just his underwear capped off what can only be described as an embarrassing day for English rugby.
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