0:00:00 > 0:00:01Thank you for your company.
0:00:01 > 0:00:06Thank you for your company. Now on BBC News, inside out report on the
0:00:06 > 0:00:15growing problem of knife crime. Good evening. This week, the young people
0:00:15 > 0:00:18trying to stop my crime in their keen unity and the women using
0:00:18 > 0:00:21social media to help others battling eating disorders. -- in their
0:00:21 > 0:00:26community.
0:00:26 > 0:00:27Hello, I'm Keeley Donovan.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29This week we're in Leeds.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Coming up on the programme:
0:00:31 > 0:00:32A year since the death
0:00:32 > 0:00:35of teenager, Irfan Wahid, the young people still living
0:00:35 > 0:00:37in fear of knife crime.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Do you still carry a knife now?
0:00:40 > 0:00:41No, not really.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Not really?
0:00:44 > 0:00:46Also tonight, the woman battling an eating disorder
0:00:46 > 0:00:49but trying to inspire others to be healthy.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Being hot wasn't good enough.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53The only thing that would've been good enough
0:00:53 > 0:00:55is if my heart stopped.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58That's the only thing that would've satisfied my
0:00:58 > 0:00:59anorexia.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01And later in the programme, like a duck to water,
0:01:01 > 0:01:04looking back at one of the most notorious sports
0:01:04 > 0:01:06finals of all time.
0:01:06 > 0:01:14ARCHIVE:It was certainly the wettest Wembley in history.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16In some areas, living with the threat of knife crime
0:01:16 > 0:01:18has become an everyday reality and one that
0:01:18 > 0:01:19gets vastly underreported.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22Next week marks a year since 16-year-old Irfan Wahid
0:01:22 > 0:01:28was stabbed and killed in Harehills, Leeds.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Our reporter, Tracey Gee, has been speaking to people,
0:01:30 > 0:01:38including members of Irfan's family, who are determined
0:01:38 > 0:01:40to change things for the better.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Some people feel like they can't be safe in Harehills.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Around the streets, there's loads of crime and that
0:01:44 > 0:01:46and you need to protect yourself.
0:01:46 > 0:01:51You can't really trust anyone, really now, can you?
0:01:51 > 0:01:57I have reported on many murder cases, knife crime incidents
0:01:57 > 0:02:03and stabbings, but I get to go home afterwards
0:02:03 > 0:02:09and you are saddened by the loss of life,
0:02:09 > 0:02:19but imagine if that's your home, that's your reality,
0:02:21 > 0:02:22that's your family.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Harehills, East Leeds, is home for the boys
0:02:24 > 0:02:25at this youth club.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Boys who used to be out on the street, some
0:02:28 > 0:02:30with a blade in their pocket.
0:02:30 > 0:02:30Screwdrivers, little table knives, anything
0:02:30 > 0:02:33that was sharp, to be honest, anything that could protect me
0:02:33 > 0:02:34from anyone else.
0:02:34 > 0:02:35Why did you carry it?
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Because it made me feel safe, that's what it was.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40It made me feel like a bigger person but, when I think
0:02:40 > 0:02:42about it now, it was stupid.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44Everything changed on the 10th of February, last year,
0:02:44 > 0:02:45when their friend, Irfan Wahid, was
0:02:45 > 0:02:46stabbed and killed.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48The 17-year-old attacker said he carried a knife
0:02:48 > 0:02:54for his own protection.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56He is now serving time for manslaughter.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59When it is someone that you know, it gets to you.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01So you understand what could happen and the consequences.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04They set up this youth club in the wake of Irfan Wahid's
0:03:04 > 0:03:07death.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09One of the leaders had a personal reason for doing
0:03:09 > 0:03:11this - Irfan was his cousin.
0:03:11 > 0:03:13The person you grew up with, who you shared most
0:03:13 > 0:03:14of your life with...it's...
0:03:14 > 0:03:15It is pretty shocking.
0:03:15 > 0:03:20It upsets me every day.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22Till this day, I still think Harehills could be safer.
0:03:22 > 0:03:30I helped push kids off the street and bring
0:03:30 > 0:03:31them to here.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33I do not want one of their family, or one
0:03:33 > 0:03:35of their friends to pass away.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37I wouldn't let my worst enemy feel the pain I felt.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39I would not wish it upon anyone.
0:03:39 > 0:03:49Yeah, we've got over 60 young people now attending...
0:03:49 > 0:03:52They brought most of the boys into the youth club by walking
0:03:52 > 0:03:54the streets and talking to them.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56The lads come to us because we are part of the community
0:03:56 > 0:04:02as well and they are not shy to talk to us.
0:04:02 > 0:04:10Some of the young people they come across are growing
0:04:10 > 0:04:12up in a culture where everyday objects, like these,
0:04:12 > 0:04:13are being used as weapons.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Two of the boys who go to this club spent time in youth
0:04:16 > 0:04:18offenders institutions for possessing a blade.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21No one could fight with their fists, there's all these
0:04:21 > 0:04:22knives, hammers, and all sorts around.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25You say no one has a fight any more without a weapon?
0:04:25 > 0:04:26No one.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27What sort of things are we talking?
0:04:27 > 0:04:30Knives and hammers, screwdrivers.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32At one point, do you know what I did?
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Basically, I was in the classroom and you know
0:04:34 > 0:04:36the sharpeners, like, there's this blade part,
0:04:36 > 0:04:39I used to take that out and keep it in my pocket.
0:04:39 > 0:04:40You mean you were at school?
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Yeah.
0:04:42 > 0:04:43Do you still carry a knife now?
0:04:43 > 0:04:44Not really.
0:04:44 > 0:04:45Not really?
0:04:45 > 0:04:48Obviously, if I feel I may be in danger that day,
0:04:48 > 0:04:51I carry something on me, but I'm not scared to cut
0:04:51 > 0:04:52someone in the throat, something like that.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54Doesn't it exacerbate the problem if you pull
0:04:54 > 0:04:55a knife on somebody?
0:04:55 > 0:05:05Yeah, it does, but obviously you have to stay protected.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08I don't want to die at a young age.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Knife crime has been a reality in Harehills for a long time.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13Four years before Irfan Wahid's death at just 16,
0:05:13 > 0:05:15Kieran Butterworth was stabbed just a couple of streets away.
0:05:15 > 0:05:16He was 17.
0:05:16 > 0:05:22When he got took away in the ambulance, a taxi had
0:05:22 > 0:05:28been driving past, and I stopped the taxi.
0:05:28 > 0:05:34Me, me mate, and me partner jumped in the taxi.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36When we've actually arrived at the A&E, the ambulance
0:05:36 > 0:05:38doors were open, and the bed that they transported him off
0:05:38 > 0:05:40on was still outside, covered in blood.
0:05:40 > 0:05:41It is like I just knew.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43My legs just went from underneath me.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45Everyday, it's stuck in my mind, ain't it, obviously.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48I remember him and the stuff we used to do.
0:05:48 > 0:05:58And that day is stuck forever.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Guilty of murder, over £170 drug debt -
0:06:00 > 0:06:01when you see that...
0:06:01 > 0:06:02It gets me angry.
0:06:02 > 0:06:03It weren't even £170.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05He only owed the man £100.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07My son's dead because he owed a man £100 for cannabis.
0:06:07 > 0:06:08Sarah is Kieran's mum.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Like a bomb just exploded and this big nothingness.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13Sarah's loss centres on a mission - to stop other
0:06:13 > 0:06:23young people carrying knives.
0:06:27 > 0:06:28You have a picture here...
0:06:28 > 0:06:32Explain this to me?
0:06:32 > 0:06:35I go into schools and I spill my heart and I try to make
0:06:35 > 0:06:38a difference, to re-educate these children that it is not
0:06:38 > 0:06:40good to carry a knife, that you're not safe
0:06:40 > 0:06:41for carrying a knife.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44I have been doing it ever since he died and I don't feel
0:06:44 > 0:06:50I am reaching a big enough audience.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52So she started a university degree.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54I'm doing teaching, next year I'm doing counselling so that
0:06:54 > 0:07:02I can offer support and help lots of bereavement groups.
0:07:02 > 0:07:03Hopefully keep the attention on knife crime awareness
0:07:03 > 0:07:09in the community because it is getting worse.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Knife crime is on the rise.
0:07:11 > 0:07:20Last year, West Yorkshire police made 481 arrests
0:07:20 > 0:07:27for possession of a bladed weapon - that's more than one
0:07:27 > 0:07:29a day, and a third more than the year before.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Sarah thinks the police could be doing more.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33I'm hearing every day, this has happened, that's
0:07:33 > 0:07:34happened, somebody's been stabbed.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37Deal with it, put strategies in place to change things.
0:07:37 > 0:07:38As you can see that's a machete...
0:07:38 > 0:07:41A knife amnesty is just one of West Yorkshire's police
0:07:41 > 0:07:42responses.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44We are working really hard to educate young people right
0:07:44 > 0:07:47across the force that carrying a knife is not the answer.
0:07:47 > 0:07:48You have dealt with grieving families.
0:07:48 > 0:07:55We have spoken to some of those grieving families
0:07:55 > 0:07:57and they've said to us, the police force are not doing
0:07:57 > 0:08:03enough.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05What would you like to say to that?
0:08:05 > 0:08:07It would disappoint me that a grieving family that we have
0:08:07 > 0:08:09supported as much as we possibly can through very,
0:08:09 > 0:08:11very tragic and upsetting circumstances do not feel
0:08:11 > 0:08:12that we are doing enough.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15We do recognise that we have had an increase in knife crime
0:08:15 > 0:08:18but we are committed as a force to dealing with that,
0:08:18 > 0:08:20and addressing it, bringing people to justice and getting
0:08:20 > 0:08:22knives off the streets of West Yorkshire.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Back in Harehills, the street team are bringing
0:08:24 > 0:08:25boys on side.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27With this youth club and all of these guys,
0:08:27 > 0:08:30I do feel safer in my area because they do help out,
0:08:30 > 0:08:31they're out there, they're in the streets,
0:08:32 > 0:08:33and they're helping people.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Without the youth club, we would be probably be local
0:08:35 > 0:08:37drug dealers and no one would care but here everyone
0:08:37 > 0:08:40shows respect and they care about you.
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0:08:47 > 0:08:50Coming up on Inside Out...
0:08:50 > 0:08:55Splashing fun - we remember the rugby league game that
0:08:55 > 0:09:01descended into farce.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Now to the story of a beautiful young woman
0:09:03 > 0:09:05who posts pictures of herself on Instagram to more
0:09:05 > 0:09:07than 80,000 followers - it doesn't sound particularly
0:09:07 > 0:09:16unusual, does it?
0:09:16 > 0:09:18But Bonnie Inglis' photos are not about fashion
0:09:18 > 0:09:20or make-up, they're a statement about her recovery
0:09:20 > 0:09:22from an eating disorder that has dominated her life
0:09:22 > 0:09:23since her early teens.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25She's told her story to Lucy Hester.
0:09:25 > 0:09:2782,000 people are about to get a new photograph of Connie
0:09:27 > 0:09:28Inglis.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31I'm just trying to figure out what clothes to wear
0:09:31 > 0:09:33for my picture today, for my Instagram.
0:09:33 > 0:09:40It just depends on what I'm feeling and what I would say
0:09:40 > 0:09:43to myself that day.
0:09:43 > 0:09:51Connie posts images of herself to her followers in Instagram
0:09:51 > 0:09:55most days. It is a visual record
0:09:55 > 0:09:57of her recovery from anorexia.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59I think people follow me because I tried to be truthful
0:09:59 > 0:10:00in my account.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Rather than just show positive sides of recovery,
0:10:02 > 0:10:09I show a lot of the negative sides and how hard it is.
0:10:09 > 0:10:15Connie's blog celebrates the fact that she is still alive.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17She has struggled with anorexia since she was ten
0:10:17 > 0:10:19and has been hospitalised three times in nine years.
0:10:19 > 0:10:24I do try and show the reality for what a normal body is -
0:10:24 > 0:10:27like I do not photo shop, I do not use editing
0:10:27 > 0:10:29on Instagram, I do not put filters on there.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31I do comparison photos of breathing in and out,
0:10:31 > 0:10:33sitting down, versus standing up, just the different
0:10:33 > 0:10:39ways your body moves.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41So I'm trying to say that all these things are normal
0:10:41 > 0:10:44and that most of the population has them and not
0:10:44 > 0:10:46everyone has to look like a Victoria's Secret model
0:10:46 > 0:10:47all the time.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Newsflash, you have a body, there is no wrong way
0:10:50 > 0:10:52to have a body - it is completely yours
0:10:52 > 0:10:53and it is beautiful.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55I'm beautiful, you're beautiful, everybody
0:10:55 > 0:11:03is beautiful so the next time body too small comes to play,
0:11:03 > 0:11:07remember what you know not what you think.
0:11:07 > 0:11:08Connie's posts today is a kickback against
0:11:08 > 0:11:18bod body image.
0:11:19 > 0:11:22I do it still because I really love helping people
0:11:22 > 0:11:25and I think that it is really important for people
0:11:25 > 0:11:26going through recovery, especially, to realise
0:11:26 > 0:11:27they are not alone in their struggles.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30No matter how hard it gets, it can always get better.
0:11:30 > 0:11:31You don't have to give up.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33Do you feel like giving up sometimes?
0:11:33 > 0:11:34Yeah.
0:11:34 > 0:11:39Yeah, I do.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Connie is officially in recovery, a healthy weight
0:11:41 > 0:11:43and recently discharged from outpatient care but two
0:11:43 > 0:11:44years ago she almost died.
0:11:44 > 0:11:45That's from January 2016.
0:11:45 > 0:11:53I was emergency admitted to Saint James.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56You seem very, very thin there.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Yeah, I was bedridden and stuff like that so,
0:11:58 > 0:12:08I couldn't leave my bed without a wheelchair.
0:12:09 > 0:12:17Here, Connie aged 20 weight about as much as a 5-year-old
0:12:17 > 0:12:20child and was sectioned to prevent her from starving
0:12:20 > 0:12:21herself to death.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22I was a really low weight.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25My white blood cells were really low and my heart
0:12:25 > 0:12:27rate was really low so they admitted me and put me
0:12:27 > 0:12:28on a tube feed.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31I was not taking in any of the tube feed, I was still
0:12:31 > 0:12:34capable of pulling it out so they put a bridle
0:12:34 > 0:12:36in my nose, which is like a tube that goes around
0:12:36 > 0:12:39the back of the bone, so if you pull it out you pull
0:12:39 > 0:12:42the bone out.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44I didn't really care about living, dying, whatever.
0:12:44 > 0:12:45I didn't mind.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47I just wanted to lose the weight, everything,
0:12:47 > 0:12:47'cause it had gotten to the point where...
0:12:48 > 0:12:50cos it had gotten to the point where...
0:12:50 > 0:12:54Being in hospital wasn't good enough.
0:12:54 > 0:12:59The only thing that would have been good enough is if my
0:12:59 > 0:13:01heart stopped and that is the only thing that would have
0:13:01 > 0:13:07satisfied my anorexia.
0:13:07 > 0:13:08The impact on Connie's family has been huge.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Years of visiting hospitals and being powerless
0:13:10 > 0:13:14to halt the illness.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16The last time, Connie was in two years ago,
0:13:16 > 0:13:22um, I went every day at least once and we normally chatted
0:13:22 > 0:13:24if she was up for talking but...
0:13:24 > 0:13:30Unless I asked you to leave.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34..If she wasn't up for talking and wanted me to leave...
0:13:34 > 0:13:40I was not a nice person sometimes when I was ill
0:13:40 > 0:13:43so I did frequently ask him to leave, tell him to get out,
0:13:43 > 0:13:45which was really lovely of me, sorry, Dad.
0:13:45 > 0:13:46It gets worse than that.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48Yeah, but I do appreciate you sticking around
0:13:48 > 0:13:50even though I didn't at the time.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52I don't think you get a choice to stick around when you're
0:13:52 > 0:13:53a dad, darling.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Yeah, I know.
0:13:55 > 0:13:56Did you think that she would die?
0:13:56 > 0:14:05Twice I think I did.
0:14:05 > 0:14:10She has such a strong will and but I always sort
0:14:10 > 0:14:13of believed that that will would be turned around
0:14:13 > 0:14:16and she would fight it.
0:14:16 > 0:14:22So even at the point where I was told she had
0:14:22 > 0:14:26a couple of weeks to live if we didn't do something
0:14:26 > 0:14:29differently, I do not think I ever really believed that
0:14:29 > 0:14:32that was going to happen but as her dad I probably just
0:14:32 > 0:14:37did not want to face that.
0:14:37 > 0:14:42My drawer is predominately sweets because I don't eat them.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44So these are sweets that you don't eat?
0:14:44 > 0:14:47So who bought the sweets, did you buy the sweets?
0:14:47 > 0:14:50I bought the sweets to try and eat the sweets because I feel
0:14:51 > 0:14:52like I should, but...
0:14:52 > 0:14:54You feel like you should be able to conquer that fear?
0:14:54 > 0:14:55Yeah.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58So, is that - are those fear foods for you?
0:14:58 > 0:14:59Yeah.
0:14:59 > 0:15:00Which are the most difficult of those?
0:15:00 > 0:15:02Um...
0:15:02 > 0:15:07The sweets probably, processed sugar scares me.
0:15:07 > 0:15:08Mm hm.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Why is it scary?
0:15:11 > 0:15:14I think it's just left over from my eating disorder,
0:15:14 > 0:15:16like, I think it's just a habit that's still there,
0:15:16 > 0:15:17that I subconsciously avoid them.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21So what kind of things did you try, what kind of things did
0:15:21 > 0:15:22you challenge yourself to eat?
0:15:22 > 0:15:23Milk, um...
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Cheese...
0:15:25 > 0:15:29Oh God, this is going to be a long list.
0:15:29 > 0:15:34Pizza, pasta, corn, butter, bread, noodles, fish.
0:15:34 > 0:15:35OK.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39So all those things you found difficult to eat, so now you've
0:15:39 > 0:15:41challenged yourself and you have eaten all of those things?
0:15:41 > 0:15:42Yeah.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Do they form part of your diet generally now?
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Yeah.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51Today, her attitude to food is a bit more relaxed.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53I enjoy cooking for people.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56It seems a bit pointless to spend an hour on a dish if I'm just
0:15:56 > 0:15:59cooking for little old me.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03Connie is eating rice and mackerel for lunch,
0:16:03 > 0:16:06a sensible meal, but she wouldn't eat it in front of us.
0:16:06 > 0:16:12Eating disorders are on the rise.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness -
0:16:14 > 0:16:21less than half of sufferers will fully recover.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23During our filming, it becomes clear that Connie,
0:16:23 > 0:16:25while generally feeling positive, does struggle with her recovery
0:16:25 > 0:16:29and worries that she might relapse.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32I have asked for further treatment, not to do with my eating disorder
0:16:32 > 0:16:35but to do with the initial problems that caused my eating disorder.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39But...
0:16:39 > 0:16:42The NHS doesn't have enough funding to help,
0:16:42 > 0:16:46which is very annoying because it seems like...
0:16:46 > 0:16:54If I'm not starving myself, then no one's going to take me seriously.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57Despite her struggles, Connie is making huge strides
0:16:57 > 0:17:00in her recovery.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03In her last year at Leeds Art University,
0:17:03 > 0:17:05she's planning an extraordinary installation for her final
0:17:05 > 0:17:07exhibition.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Connie has made Barbie and Bratz dolls body pieces out of boiled
0:17:09 > 0:17:11and coloured sugar.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13I'm really interested to see the colour that's starting
0:17:13 > 0:17:15to come through these.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18Can you talk a bit about your choice of colour palette?
0:17:18 > 0:17:20I was trying to make them all really bright colours,
0:17:20 > 0:17:29and I just really liked the whole concept -
0:17:29 > 0:17:32like the whole idea of it all being really appealing and sickly.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Connie's work is still in the early stages, but it will be an ironic
0:17:35 > 0:17:38twist on the pressures on women to be thin.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41A lot of young girls's toys do encourage poor body image,
0:17:41 > 0:17:43and people aspire to be this model like figure.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46If Barbie was a real woman, she would not have half her organs,
0:17:46 > 0:17:48she would be classed as severely anorexic,
0:17:48 > 0:17:51if not dead.
0:17:51 > 0:17:52Did that strike a chord with you?
0:17:52 > 0:18:01Yeah, it was a bit...
0:18:01 > 0:18:05It was just ridiculous.
0:18:05 > 0:18:15I can't help but be struck by Connie's talent and vitality,
0:18:15 > 0:18:17but it's clear that after ten years, she's still waging an internal
0:18:17 > 0:18:20battle between happiness and despair and hope and fear.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23The fact that I actually feel like I have a future is brilliant.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25I want to not relapse again, that would be really great.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27I'd like to finish university.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29I'm a lot happier than I was, and a lot more positive
0:18:29 > 0:18:32than I was in the depths of my eating disorder.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35We get our fair share of wet days but our next story
0:18:35 > 0:18:45is about a particularly soggy one.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48In 1968, the Rugby League Challenge Cup final between Leeds
0:18:48 > 0:18:56and Wakefield Trinity was played in torrential conditions.
0:18:56 > 0:18:59So much so, that it became known as the Watersplash final.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01Well, 50 years on, Leeds Rhinos star Jamie Jones-Buchanan has been
0:19:01 > 0:19:04finding out why the game has lasted so long in the memory.
0:19:04 > 0:19:09This weekend saw the opening round of Super League,
0:19:09 > 0:19:10rugby league's premier competition.
0:19:10 > 0:19:122018 marks my 20th straight season playing for the same club,
0:19:12 > 0:19:13Leeds Rhinos.
0:19:13 > 0:19:18But this year, there's another rugby league anniversary.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21It's 50 years since one of the wettest major sporting
0:19:21 > 0:19:27occasions in the history of British sport.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31NEWSREEL: Wembley, the Rugby League Cup final,
0:19:31 > 0:19:32Leeds versus Wakefield Trinity.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35May 11 1968, Wembley was poised and ready for what was undoubtedly
0:19:35 > 0:19:38back then the biggest event of the rugby calendar,
0:19:38 > 0:19:39the Challenge Cup final.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41The last time my club, Leeds, had reached a final
0:19:41 > 0:19:47at Wembley was 1957.
0:19:47 > 0:19:57Wakefield, on the other hand, had won the trophy in 1960,
0:19:58 > 0:20:0462 and 63.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06The venue, London's Empire Stadium at Wembley.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08Before Super Rugby, the Challenge Cup final was always
0:20:08 > 0:20:11played in May and more often than not, the weather was always
0:20:11 > 0:20:14warm and sunny, but the 1968 final, the heavens opened.
0:20:14 > 0:20:15NEWSREEL:Wembley was witnessing a soggy, soggy duel.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Water polo players would have been more at home
0:20:18 > 0:20:19than the 26 rugby leaguers.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21It was certainly the wettest Wembley in history.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24So much rain fell that day that for obvious reasons,
0:20:24 > 0:20:26it's usually referred to as the Watersplash final.
0:20:26 > 0:20:31Many people said the game should have been called off,
0:20:31 > 0:20:35but with 87,000 people in the ground - most of which had travelled down
0:20:35 > 0:20:45from Yorkshire - the referee and probably the rugby football
0:20:49 > 0:20:52league said the show must go on.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54NEWSREEL: 1968 rugby league Challenge Cup final...
0:20:54 > 0:20:55The rivalry between neighbours, Leeds and Wakefield,
0:20:55 > 0:20:58remains fierce, so I was more than a little bit nervous
0:20:58 > 0:21:01when I visited Charleston Rovers rugby league club in a former pit
0:21:01 > 0:21:02village, on the edge of Wakefield.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06I was there to watch the game and to meet some people who remember
0:21:06 > 0:21:07the Watersplash final as if it were yesterday.
0:21:07 > 0:21:11I wouldn't say it was the best game, I think it's probably the most
0:21:11 > 0:21:18memorable rugby league game ever.
0:21:18 > 0:21:24This guy came rushing in about 15 minutes before kickoff,
0:21:24 > 0:21:28we're all there in the dressing room.
0:21:28 > 0:21:33"You'll never believe it", he said, "it's absolutely throwing it down."
0:21:33 > 0:21:43On slightly safer ground at Headingley - the home of my club,
0:21:44 > 0:21:48Leeds Rhinos - I also met up with some of that 1968 Leeds side.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50We're standing in the tunnel.
0:21:50 > 0:21:51"This is it, boys, this is it."
0:21:51 > 0:21:54And we walked out into the sunshine, but it's like a lake.
0:21:54 > 0:21:55The water covered your boots.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57I've never played in conditions like that before, it was...
0:21:57 > 0:21:58Frightening at times.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02One tackle I made, Ian Brooke broke clear and I were covering the cross
0:22:02 > 0:22:04and I took him down, and we slid 15 yards.
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Everybody was slipping and sliding.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08When somebody come in to tackle ya, it were like somebody diving
0:22:08 > 0:22:10in the two feet end and you were like...
0:22:10 > 0:22:12Trying to get water out of your mouth.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15But the climax of the Watersplash final was still to be told.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17With the game already deep in injury time,
0:22:17 > 0:22:18Leeds were four points clear.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Wakefield Trinity needed both a try and a conversion to win.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25And surely, there was no time for either.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27COMMENTATOR:Oh, he's gone over for a try!
0:22:27 > 0:22:28He's got a try.
0:22:28 > 0:22:29It's a try!
0:22:29 > 0:22:31It's been saved at the last minute, try!
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Everyone jumps up and thought "we snatched it".
0:22:33 > 0:22:35How did it feel when it went in?
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Did you think "we've got this, we've done it"?
0:22:37 > 0:22:40If you watch the thing, I'm jumping up and down
0:22:40 > 0:22:41like somebody was just deposed.
0:22:41 > 0:22:42You know, I'm so embarrassed.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45I'm so embarrassed when I look at it, I'm doing this and giving it
0:22:45 > 0:22:47all this, and you know.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49But that's how it felt, it were that emotional coming out.
0:22:49 > 0:22:50I can't believe it.
0:22:50 > 0:22:51I couldn't believe it.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Like this, and then we're just waiting for Don to kick it.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56It's a formality really, and Don kicked the ball.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59Normally, Wakefield's goalkicker was Don Fox's brother and teammate,
0:22:59 > 0:23:09Neil.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16But Neil was watching the game from the stands with an injury,
0:23:16 > 0:23:18so Wakefield's fate and the Watersplash final lay
0:23:18 > 0:23:19in Don's hands.
0:23:19 > 0:23:20No pressure.
0:23:20 > 0:23:21How did you feel?
0:23:21 > 0:23:25Was he a player or was he your brother, or was he a bit of both?
0:23:25 > 0:23:28Did you have nerves, what was going through your mind?
0:23:28 > 0:23:31That I wish it was me who was taking the kick at the time.
0:23:31 > 0:23:32Right.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35Because Don was a bit softhearted, he was a gentle man really.
0:23:35 > 0:23:36Yeah.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39And I was sat in the stand and thinking well, he's got to kick
0:23:39 > 0:23:43this, but this is a kick that I wouldn't have liked to have taken.
0:23:43 > 0:23:44COMMENTATOR: He's missed it!
0:23:44 > 0:23:45He's on the ground, he's missed it.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Well, and there goes the whistle for time.
0:23:47 > 0:23:48What a dramatic...
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Everybody's got their head in their hands and he's in tears,
0:23:51 > 0:23:52he's in tears.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54He's a poor lad, poor Don Fox...
0:23:54 > 0:23:56They all jumped up in the air and cheered.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58Poor old Don were on his knees.
0:23:58 > 0:23:59I went across to him and said look...
0:24:00 > 0:24:01And moved on to celebrate.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04And it was Clarke who collected the cup, not the Wakefield captain.
0:24:04 > 0:24:05You can tell it touched a real nerve.
0:24:06 > 0:24:07I've never recovered.
0:24:07 > 0:24:08You never recovered?
0:24:08 > 0:24:09No, 50 years on.
0:24:09 > 0:24:10I'm damaged for life.
0:24:10 > 0:24:19I've got friends who'll tell ya, you know, I'm a wreck
0:24:19 > 0:24:20as a consequence of 68.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22To me, it was an out of body experience.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24The bottom line is that we won.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25We were fortunate.
0:24:25 > 0:24:26There's no doubt about that.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Well, here with me, and it's whike the trophy is being paraded around,
0:24:29 > 0:24:31must be one of the saddest sporting stories in history,
0:24:31 > 0:24:34Don Fox, who just missed kicking that winning penalty.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Don, it must be a desperate thing for a situation like that to occur?
0:24:37 > 0:24:38Shocking, shocking.
0:24:38 > 0:24:39I can't speak, I'm that upset.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Anyway, I've got some tremendous news for you that I know
0:24:42 > 0:24:43you don't know yet.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46You have been awarded the Lance Todd memorial trophy for the outstanding
0:24:46 > 0:24:47player on the field.
0:24:47 > 0:24:48Yeah, I don't...
0:24:48 > 0:24:55Thank you, David.
0:24:55 > 0:24:56Any consolation to you?
0:24:56 > 0:24:57Er, not really, no.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00That match has been nothing but good for the game because people
0:25:00 > 0:25:01who didn't understand rugby, look at that.
0:25:01 > 0:25:05Does that 1968 final rank up there with one of the more special
0:25:05 > 0:25:06rugby league moments in your career?
0:25:06 > 0:25:07Yeah.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09It's the number one, I've played five Wembleys
0:25:09 > 0:25:10and I only won one.
0:25:10 > 0:25:20In May, it's 50 years since that final.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23There's been a lot of watta watta under th'bridge since then,
0:25:23 > 0:25:25and some amazing games, but do you know what?
0:25:25 > 0:25:31I don't think you'll ever see another game
0:25:31 > 0:25:32like the Watersplash final.
0:25:32 > 0:25:42That's it from here in Leeds, but make sure you join us next week.