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Tough-guy Des was scourge of All Blacks

Des Seabrook 1941 – 2020
By BRENDAN GALLAGHER

Top of the tree: Coach Martin Green, right, and his assistant Des Seabrook direct the England training in 1987

Captain marvel: Des Seabrook lifts the Lancashire Cup for Orrell in 1972

THERE are some rugby folk out there who occasionally question if English rugby shares the same die hard passion of say the Celts...but they obviously never met Des Seabrook, a great man of Lancashire and the North who passed this week aged 79.
Seabrook was Lancashire and Wigan writ large from his flat cap, bristling moustache and propensity to call a sp...

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