By Chris Hewett - Thinking Allowed
It was the rugby version of Easy Street, the 1917 silent movie in which Charlie Chaplin, playing a policeman, smashes a giant bully over the head with a truncheon, but fails to make him blink.
Poor little Tomos Williams, a scrum-half constructed on the same scale as Chaplin, made precisely the same impact on Josua Tuisova, a centre the size of a continent, before being treated to the mother of all hand-offs and becoming the first Welshman to visit the International Space Station.
Williams was not remotely equipped for the contest: for one thing, he was th...
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