Amid the heroics, the heartache and wails of Welsh injustice over their shabby treatment at Twickenham, the name of a long-forgotten England prop springs to mind, writes Peter Jackson. Phil Bennett is reputed to have once stoked the dressing-room fire before an England match by telling his troops: “Look at what these bastards have done to Wales. “To beat England was a small way of redressing the balance of injustice over the centuries,’’ he once told me. Had he been watching Saturday night’s dust-up from some Elysian Field, the most patriotic of all Welsh rugby men could not have blamed a glorious Welsh failure on another dirty Anglo-Saxon trick. Replays left no doubt that the emergency Welsh full back, Gareth Anscombe, touched the ball in-goal a split-second before England’s Anthony Watson.

Source: Irish Examiner February 12, 2018 00:45 UTC