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Cranston Fine Arts Sport Art and Artists Rugby Player Signatures F to M Luger, Dan

Dan Luger

Dan Luger - Signed Sport Art

Twist in the Tale by Peter Cornwell. One edition. The edition features an additional signature. £240.00

Spirit of England by Peter Cornwell. This single edition is sold out. The edition features 3 additional signatures.

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Twist in the Tale by Peter Cornwell. Englands victory over Austrlia in 2000. In their first game in five months, England achieved what many regarded as the impossible, a victory over the World Champions Australia. From the outset England pressurised Australia with some fast attacking rugby. Within the first quarter of an hour England were rewarded with two penalties and took a 6 - 0 lead. Australia quickly levelled the score through the boot of Matt Burke. Penalties were exchanged again before Griffin was sin binned just before half time, which England took full advantage of and nosed in fron 12 - 9 through Johnny Wilkinson. Although Australia began the second half a man down it was in fact they who started the brighter side. Englands forwards gave away a careless free kick and with a quick tap and go Australia drove the ball downfield and after some outstannding work by Joe Roff spun the ball out to the left for Burke to score. Burke successfully converted his own try and went on to increase Australias lead with yet another penalty eight minutes into the second half, making the score 12 - 19. England needed to make changes. Matt Dawson was brought on for Bracken and Balshaw replaced Austin Healey. With victory in sight Australia began to slow the game down and the crowd became increasingly incensed. Wilkinson kicked a further penalty and with time slipping away England began to enforce an increasing amount of pressure on the Australian defence. With just seconds remaining Balshaw saw Englands only hope of victory and placed an inch perfect chip over the Australian defensive line for Dan Luger to chase. With outstanding anticipation Luger managed to touch the ball down. After confirmation by the video referee and the conversion by Wilkinson, which followed, England had managed to secure a memorable victory over Australia, winning 22 - 19.

Spirit of England by Peter Cornwell. 75,000 people poured into Twickenham to witness rugby history as the mighty Springboks, unbeaten in 17 games, attempted to emulate the New Zealand record of 18 consecutive test match victories. The English side included Jeremy Guscott and Matthew Dawson, the catalysts behind the victorious Lions team of 1997, the last team to defeat the South Africans. The signs looked ominous for England as Roussow scored an early try converted by Percy Montgomery. Within 5 minutes Mike Catt produced a delightful crossfield ball which Dan Luger caught brilliantly wide on the left wing. Fending off Stefan Terblanche he managed to feed the ball to Guscott looping around the outside to score the try. From then on Englands superb forwards built the foundations for a magnificent victory and it was fitting that Darren Garforth was made man of the match for his dynamic display. The rest of Englands points came from stand in place kicker Matt Dawson. Matt held his nerve twice in the second half to give England the lead. Even at the death it seemed that England would be denied by a dramatic last minute try as South Africa broke away from their own line, but as the final telling pass was delivered a lunging deflection from the outstanding Dan Luger prevented the score and gave England their first victory over a Southern Hemisphere team since 1995.