Ten years on from Bloodgate, Tom Williams, Danny Care and Ugo Monye explain what happened that day and life in the aftermath of a rugby union scandal.
Tom Williams left the field during Harlequins semi-final against Leinster with a 'blood injury'
After four months of protracted disciplinary hearings, Richards resigned and was handed a three-year ban from all rugby. I just ran on the pitch and got on with my job. A few phases later, the physio runs on and gives me a blood capsule and I was like: 'What the hell do I do with this?' He told me to go into contact, put it in my mouth, chew it and go down. 'We'll get you off,' he said.Genuinely at the time, I had no idea what was going on.
Shane Horgan had shouted from the Leinster bench, 'It's not real blood, it's not real blood' as I was stumbling down the tunnel. So we went into the changing room, I had a conversation with the doctor and she made the cut. Logical decision making at the time, for myself and Dr Chapman, was just not there.I got a sense of how serious it was initially but the club's message to me was along the lines of: 'Don't worry.
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