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The day Syd needed his teeth to be in

PETER JACKSON

Syd Millar’s Himalayan climb along the cutting edge of rugby history encompassed three momentous events: the invincible Lions tour of 1974, the inaugural World Cup of 1987 and the Paris Summit of 1995.
Somehow it seemed right that Ulster’s dogged frontiersman should have been centrally involved in a hattrick beyond compare. He had long known how it felt to be on the wrong side of a cutting edge as applied by an opponent whose bite proved infinitely worse than his bark.
During the opening match of the 1962 Five Nations at Lansdowne Road, two unidentified French opponents pinned...

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