Phil Pugh

For the Welsh minister, see Philip Pugh.
Phil Pugh
Full namePhillip Pugh
Date of birth (1959-10-08) 8 October 1959 (age 65)
Place of birthSeven Sisters, Wales
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1989 Wales 1 (0)

Phillip Pugh (born 8 October 1959) is a Welsh former rugby union international.

A native of Seven Sisters in Neath Port Talbot, Pugh was a flanker and played his senior rugby for Neath RFC.[1] He was a physical player, regarded as an enforcer, whose performance for Neath against the touring All Blacks in 1989 earned him a maiden Wales call up at the age of 30 for the one-off Test in Cardiff. This remained his only Wales cap.[2][3]

Pugh, previously a miner, works as a salesman for the agricultural industry.[4]

  1. ^ Orders, Mark (16 September 2020). "Phil Pugh at 60, the menacing hard man of Wales' hardest rugby team". Wales Online.
  2. ^ Orders, Mark (21 November 2017). "The day a Welsh star tried to spark a unique response to the haka". Wales Online.
  3. ^ "Wales find one more nugget in the mine". The Guardian. 4 November 1989.
  4. ^ Woolford, Anthony (7 April 2015). "What became of Welsh rugby's cult heroes of the 80s and 90s?". Wales Online.