Tom Williams (rugby player, born 1983) member of the “200 Club” having represented Harlequins for over 200 1st games. During the 2008–09 Heineken Cup quarter final against Leinster, Williams was told to fake a blood injury by Dean Richards to allow a tactical substitition to reintroduce Nick Evans leading to the bloodgate scandal. This resulted in a 12-month ban for Williams, (reduced to four months on appeal), a three-year ban for former director of rugby Dean Richards as well as a two-year ban for physiotherapist Steph Brennan from the ERC with a £260,000 fine for the club. Tom remains the only one to apologise for this
Lichfield Rugby Union Football Club Lichfield Rugby Union Football Club Lichfield Rugby Union Football Club is a rugby union club based in the city of Lichfield, Staffordshire. The first XV currently play in Midlands Premier of the Midlands Division, a fifth tier league in the English rugby union system. It is one of the oldest rugby football clubs still in active in England, although the oldest in Staffordshire is Stafford Rugby Union Football Club, which was founded the year before, in 1873. The club runs three senior teams, a veterans team, two women's teams and a youth section ranging from under sevens to colts and