PETER JACKSON

THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW
On this very Sunday almost a quarter of a century ago, Rugby Union arrived at the momentous decision to come clean and succumb to the filthy lucre of professionalism.
At the Hotel Ambassador on Boulevard Haussmann in downtown Paris, two very different global figures reached the same conclusion: a visionary Welsh barrister from the Amman valley, Vernon Pugh, and a South African multi-millionaire with a reputation as a playground bully, Louis Luyt.
When the news broke that Sunday, August 26, 1995, an unquantifiable number of international players woul...