THEWelsh Rugby Union have dragged the good name of the game through the mud of some shameful episodes, not least their toadying to South Africa during the anti-apartheid era and their cynical capping of New Zealanders which led to ‘Grannygate’.
Wales, of course, were not alone. That the rest of the Union Establishment joined them in giving succor to the racist Springboks made it all the more odious and yet that same Establishment treated some of their very own like third-class citizens.
Those who chose to cross the Rubicon from Union to League were treated like social lepers bec...