Former England star had ‘half his eye hanging out and teeth out his face’ after sickening training ground accident

LAWRENCE DALLAGIO has revealed Simon Shaw erstwhile showed up a squad of Premier League stars - by returning to a grooming crippled with his "eye hanging out".

Dellagio spent his full rugby vocation with Wasps and made 85 appearances for the Red Rose.

The legendary flanker won the World Cup successful 2003 and was seen arsenic 1 of the toughest players of his generation.

But Dellagio revealed it was Shaw who embarrassed a radical of QPR players - by playing done a fearfulness wounded successful training.

Speaking to the Stick to Football podcast, brought to you by Sky Bet, Dellagio said: "When I was astatine Wasps, we had to stock a grooming crushed with QPR.

"I deliberation Ian Holloway was the manager astatine the time.

"We were grooming unneurotic and of people it was a bedewed miserable day.

"Half the QPR players are successful the physio country similar that [shrivelled up]. 

"Simon Shaw comes successful with a grooming mishap - helium has got fractional his oculus hanging retired and teeth retired his face.

"He gets stitched up by the physio and is backmost retired grooming again wrong 5 minutes.

"It’s conscionable antithetic [between shot and rugby]."

Shaw, an imposing fastener who stood 6ft8 and tipped the scales astatine astir 20 stone, played 15 seasons astatine Wasps.

The 51-year-old earned an MBE alongside Dellagio aft winning the World Cup successful 2003.

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But Dellagio admits his combative benignant of rugby would not beryllium suited to the modern game.

He continued: "The crippled that we played successful rugby, convulsive acts of thuggery were applauded.

"If I played the modern crippled of rugby now, I’d beryllium sent disconnected each week.

"Rugby needs to alteration successful my opinion. Formula One is simply a pugnacious athletics and determination are risks.

"Even being a jockey – there’s immoderate superior risks there.

"MMA is fundamentally 2 thugs successful a ringing beating the c**p retired of each different and the clips spell viral.

"Rugby has this obsession with showing head-on-head collisions successful dilatory motion, unrecorded connected tv and astatine the stadium.

"We request to recognize that the risks are there, but you [as a player] cognize what you’re signing up for.

"There are risks progressive similar the concussions and the recovery.

"The subject astir injuries is changing each the time.  It’s a carnal confrontational sport."

Lawrence Dallaglio was speaking connected the Stick to Football podcast, brought to you by Sky Bet.

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