SHANE WILLIAMS
WALES AND LIONS LEGEND

Driving force: Taulupe Faletau was back to his magnificent best

Sometimes you just have to curse your bad luck and heap praise on a team even in defeat. One of the main hopes for Wayne Pivac’s side when they headed to South Africa was to restore some pride and play with the passion for which Welsh rugby is renowned.
They did that in spades in the first Test in Pretoria and deserved to get something at least out of an epic international. It was a night of ‘what ifs’ and a game in which one of the greatest results in Welsh ...