PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Ashred of new evidence is shining a light on the most intriguing St Valentine’s Day bustup of any Six Nations tournament, the Mike Ruddock Affair.
It came out of left-field halfway through Slammed, a three-part BBC Wales documentary about the recurring humiliation of their national team during almost three decades without a Grand Slam until Ruddock succeeded where other coaches had failed.
Within 12 months of leading Wales to the highest European peak, Ruddock had gone. As the 16th anniversary of his intriguingly abrupt exit approaches, the fres...