Martin Offiah

What a runner this guy was. 186 tries in 158 games for Wigan, 181 in 145 for Widnes. And “Chariots” had one of the best nicknames in sport too.

Here’s his 90m try at Wembley in the 1994 Challenge Cup Final against Leeds.

Just look at how much faster he is than the opposition in these tries:

By JP, on February 3, 2011 at 4:45 pm, under Rugby League. 1 Comment
Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

Comments

  • Joe Catcheside  On February 4, 2011 at 1:58 am
    Permalink | Reply

    Offiah was quick, but defensively fragile and a little contact shy.

    Des Drummond was faster and stronger and an all-round better player.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: