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Kings of the Jungle where wild beasts come to play

Brendan Gallagher continues his enthralling series by looking at rugby’s feared enforcers

1 Jacques Burger (Namibia)
The King as far as I am concerned. I never saw a harder, tougher, player on a rugby pitch – mentally or physically. Impervious to pain, aggressive, undaunted, remorseless, courageous – Burger spent his rugby life at the coalface dishing out pain and receiving it in equal measure and never flinched once.
Just look at that face for a moment, one of the great sporting portraits of modern times. Scarred, haggard, fatigued, sweaty, stressed, exhausted but tr...

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