Dave Rogers: ‘My favourite photo? Jonny Wilkinson’s drop goal in 2003’

There are few more trusted witnesses than the veteran photographer who has been capturing rugby’s big moments for nearly 40 years

Anyone who has attended a rugby match will have seen him from a distance. The anorak, the slightly rounded shoulders from decades of lugging his equipment around, the broad smile and, at certain times of year, the trademark tan. If there is a game happening Dave Rogers will probably be there photographing it for Getty Images, always assuming he has remembered to remove his lens cap.

It is one of the trade’s timeless gags: for as long as newspapers exist there will be snappers (photographers) and hacks (writers) disputing each other’s respective worth. Is every picture really worth a thousand words? According to Rogers, who was patrolling sodden touchlines long before today’s players were even born, it is barely a contest.

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