TERRY Cooper was an old-fashioned reporter with an innate love of the game he wrote about. As Rugby correspondent of the national news agency, the Press Association, the job was made for him.
Over the course of a lifetime, he knew everybody who was anyone in the game. They knew him, they listened to him and they made time for him because what Terry wanted to know would, as likely as not, set the agenda for the nationals, radio and television.
Having made the quantum leap from Cardiff to what was left of Fleet Street some 30 years ago and barely knowing a soul in English rugby east of Bath, ...