Like his friends Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars, Delaunay was fascinated by modernity, whether by the exploits of aviators, like he shows in his Homage to Blériot, or in here by the sport of rugby, then in full expansion and already very popular in France and the British Isles.

Delaunay took inspiration of a photograph that he saw in a magazine of a rugby game for the painting series of which this was the second made.

Six rugby players are shown in the lower part of the work, in sporting attires and in action, with their brightly colored jerseys made of crude lines.

On the upper level of the painting there is an advertising poster with the slogan “Astra” and behind it some of the great inventions and creations of the time: a biplane, a rollercoaster and the Eiffel Tower.

But, in the series dedicated to the Cardiff Team, the painting cannot be considered abstract, because there are many elements of everyday life visible: the rugby players, an advertising board, the Eiffel Tower, a rollercoaster.