PETER JACKSON

Brandon Cripps earned his stripes in the twice-weekly mayhem of the Welsh club scene during an era when more than one wounded English opponent cancelled fixtures in protest at being beaten up. It was, as the man himself admitted, “the law of the jungle, like the Wild West at times”.
As one who quickly learnt to dispense his own brand of rough justice, Cripps would have seen himself as a lawman more in keeping with Wyatt Earp than Jesse James. At times the gratuitous violence, allowed to flourish unchecked by too many permissive referees, beggared belief.
“You would come off t...