Brian Moore (rugby union)
| Full name | Brian Christopher Moore | ||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 11 January 1962 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Birmingham, England | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 ½ in) | ||||||||||||
| School | Crossley and Porter School | ||||||||||||
| University | University of Nottingham | ||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Solicitor, Pundit | ||||||||||||
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| Position | Hooker | ||||||||||||
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Nottingham Harlequins Richmond |
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| Years | Club / team | Apps | (points) |
| 1987–1995 1989, 1993 |
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Brian Christopher Moore (born 11 January 1962) is an English former rugby union footballer. He played as a hooker, and is a rugby presenter and pundit for BBC Sport and Talksport. He qualified as a Rugby Football Union referee in February 2010.
Moore was born to single mother Rina Kirk in Birmingham, abandoned by his Malaysian father. His mother gave him up for adoption at 7 months old to Methodist lay preachers Ralph (deceased) and Dorothy Moore, who moved to Halifax, West Yorkshire, where he lived in Illingworth and attended the Crossley and Porter School, and he first played rugby union for the Old Crossleyans. Moore's adoptive parents had two daughters of their own and adopted three children as well as Moore.
In December 2009, Moore revealed to the media that he was sexually abused in a tent during a camping trip and in a classroom storeroom when he was 9 by a male schoolteacher who also abused other boys of the same age. He was too ashamed to tell his adoptive parents as the abuser was a churchgoing friend of theirs. The shame he felt at being a victim made him keep silent about it until he told the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre in London in 2008. He said the trauma made him ferociously competitive on the rugby field, and commented "If you have been abused, you feel tainted by association with the awfulness of the crime."
Moore studied law at the University of Nottingham gaining an LLB (Hons) degree in 1984 and was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Law on 14 July 2010.
Moore played as an amateur senior for Nottingham, the club where he made his name. During his time at Nottingham he won his first England caps and toured Australia with the British and Irish Lions. In 1990 he moved to London to train as a solicitor, and played for Harlequins. Moore ended his club career at Richmond.
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