IN the late spring of 1999, Glanmor Griffiths stood amid the noise and dust of a building site in downtown Cardiff dismissing doubts over whether the reconfiguration of the old Arms Park into the new Millennium Stadium could be ready to host the World Cup kicking off five months later. The then chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union never wavered. “It will be finished on time,” he told anyone who cared to listen. “Let there be no doubt about that.”
Those who had their doubts included the tournament organisers which may have been another reason why Griffiths neve...