CHRIS HEWETT
GUEST COLUMNIST
Not at his best: Gareth Edwards in the third Test in 1971
PICTURE: Getty Images
“Barry John, aka The King, committed the full range of fly-half sins in the first 40”
History is written by the victors. Whole libraries are devoted to the one and only Lions series triumph in New Zealand, the 50th anniversary of which will be celebrated this time next year, with virtually every volume recounting and reflecting in shades of red rather than black.
Those captivated by the heroics of ages past could have spent the entire lockdown reading about Carwyn an...