Steve Thompson (rugby union)
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Stephen Geoffrey Thompson MBE is a former rugby union player who played at hooker for Northampton Saints and England. He was once England's most capped hooker and played for the British & Irish Lions.
Thompson in 2010
In 2005, the British & Irish Lions rugby union team toured New Zealand for the first time since 1993, playing seven matches against first and second division teams from the National Provincial Champio
Steve Thompson (rugby union)
…England's opening World Cup match against Georgia in Perth. Thompson continued as an England regular in the Autumn games of 2004. He was selected for the 2005 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand; on the tour, he seemed to have regained some of his form after a poor 2005 Six Nations. On 19 May 2009, Martin Johnson gave Thompson a surprise call…
The Lions forwards are held in a maul by the New Zealand Maori
Auckland v Lions