The 1998 England rugby union tour of Australasia and South Africa was a series of matches played in June and July 1998 by
England national rugby union team
The England national rugby union team represents England in men's international rugby union. They compete in the annual Six Nations Championship with France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. England have won the championship on 29 occasion ...
.
Matches
The tour is often referred to in rugby culture as "The Tour of Hell" due to the number of heavy defeats suffered by the England team. This was caused principally because England fielded a roster of untested and uncapped players.
:''Scores and results list England's points tally first.''
Nick Beal
Nicholas David Beal (born 2 December 1970 in Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire) is a rugby union player who played at Fullback for Northampton Saints, England and the Lions.
Career Club
Beal spent his whole professional career at Northampton S ...
Austin Healey
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Stuart Potter
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Career
Potter started his career with a four-year spell w ...
(Leicester Tigers),
Dominic Chapman
Dominic Chapman (born ) is an English former rugby union footballer who played as a back three player. He won his only England cap against Australia during the 1998 "Tour of Hell". He played for a rugby club team in Richmond, London.
Refere ...
(Richmond),
Steve Ravenscroft
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London Welsh Rugby Football Club ( cy, Clwb Rygbi Cymry Llundain) was a rugby union club f ...
Peter Richards
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(London Irish)
Loose-forwards
Tony Diprose
Tony Diprose (born 22 September 1972, in Orsett) is a former English rugby union footballer. He played at number 8.
Diprose attended The Campion School, Hornchurch.
Club career
Diprose signed for Harlequins from Saracens in April 2001 and m ...
(Saracens),
Steve Ojomoh
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Club career
Ojomoh played for Moseley, Bath, and Glouceste ...
(Bath),
Richard Pool-Jones
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Dave Sims
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(Gloucester),
Rob Fidler
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Phil Greening
Phil Greening (born 3 October 1975) is an English former rugby union footballer who played as a hooker. Greening finished his rugby career with London Wasps in 2005. During his career he earned 24 caps for England, as well as going to Austral ...
(Gloucester),
George Chuter
George Scala Chuter (born 9 July 1976) is an English rugby union ex player who played at Hooker for Leicester Tigers.
Biography
Chuter was born in Greenwich. He first started playing as a 12-year-old, when he went to Trinity School of John W ...
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...