THE FORMER BEDFORD, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY AND ENGLAND LOCK

BOB WILKINSON

Iwent to Wales versus Scotland with a friend last Saturday – only the second time I’d been back to Cardiff since playing there for the Barbarians against the All Blacks in 1973 – and the memories of that game came flooding back as I walked past the Old Royal Hotel, our accommodation all those years ago. It has seen better days but haven’t we all!? Unusually for those times we had our own rooms which was probably a good thing considering the amount of champagne I consumed after our famous victor...