International Rugby News has collated a list of the best wind-ups players have witnessed during their careers. . The Independent features some of these tales including this one from former Leicester Tigers fly-half Andy Goode.
""The one that sticks in my mind is going back seven or eight years, when Austin Healey (L) had a running feud with Steve Booth (R). Austin had this superstition to eat popcorn the night before a game so he would either go to the cinema to watch a film or just drive to the cinema to get some popcorn and then go home. Austin was at the cinema one night with his missus and he had just been given a new Mercedes from his sponsor. Steve was also at the cinema but Austin didn't know he was there. Steve saw Austin's car so he went and got cans and cans of shaving foam and covered Austin's new car in it.
"The next day, Austin got wind that it was Boothy and decided to, for want of a better word, do a number two in his shoe. Austin took Boothy's shoe before the game, did what he needed to do in it and left it there for the whole match! Another superstition of Austin's was that he had a certain lucky T-shirt that he always wore during warm-ups. After the game, Boothy went to put his shoes on, saw what had happened and decided to clean his shoe out with Austin's lucky t-shirt. Austin took great exception to this, put Boothy in a sleeper hold and was about five seconds from knocking him unconscious on the dressing room floor. It was not so much a changing room prank but more of a feud that got out of hand.""
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