THIS coming Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the day the Springboks had their team bus hijacked in central London, a ploy which in retrospect ought to have spared them the indignity of losing to England at Twickenham that very same afternoon.
The attempt by anti-apartheid demonstrators to drive the visitors off towards the middle of nowhere had been designed to leave the hosts with nobody to play. England had a new captain (Bob Hiller), a new pair of half-backs (Roger Shackleton, Nigel Starmer-Smith), a new left wing (Peter Hale), a new loosehead (Stack Stevens) and a new flanker (Tony ...