PETER JACKSON

Courtenay Meredith spent the last 71 years of an exceptionally long life with something to shout about over what transpired on the Saturday before Christmas 1953.
A year of monumental events topped by the Queen’s coronation is best remembered in Wales not for Stanley Matthews winning the FA Cup, nor Len Hutton’s England regaining the Ashes but the All Blacks losing at Cardiff Arms Park.
Meredith’s death, a few months before his 98th birthday, severs the last living link to a match which has assumed still more historic significance with every defeat inflicted by New Zealand o...