PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

AT Twickenham more than 50 years ago, Mike Coulman did something that had not been seen there before or since: a prop galloping ‘fully 30 yards’ for a solo try.
That it proved just enough for England to retain the Calcutta Cup on a spring day in 1968 made his stampede all the more significant. The Moseley loosehead went careering over as if he had flicked a turbo-charger into overdrive, leaving the Scots so far in his slipstream that, according to Dan Stansfield’s The Who, When and Where of English International Rugby, ‘nobody laid a finger on him’....