Louis Luyt may have been his own worst enemy, but it was a close-run thing. There were plenty of contenders for the title even before his South African Rugby Board presidential power grab in 1989 and the list fell off the bottom of the page after a spectacularly loutish triumphal address following the Springboks’ victory in the 1995 World Cup final – a speech that left at least one defeated All Black actively considering retaliation in the form of a bunch of fives. The late Dr Luyt was the nearest thing rugby has had to a Trumpian figure, but he understood something of economics...