Trailblazing Bee-Gee who twice broke Welsh hearts

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW
The merest mention of his name still evokes memories of the lunar landing as well as a result that put Samoa over the moon and Wales under the blackest of clouds.
Apollo Perelini, so called because his birth in July 1969 coincided with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins launching Apollo 1 into space, did more than anyone to give the World Cup a giant-killing superseded only by Japan’s ambush of the Springboks almost a quarter of a century later.
What happened at Cardiff Arms Park on a Sunday lunchtime in October 1991 changed the c...

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