Webbe had an answer for racism: Laugh at it

Ground-breaker: Glenn Webbe playing for Wales against Scotland

Glenn Webbe has never been one to blow his own trumpet. Had he changed the habit of a lifetime and given it a blast, the sound might have brought the barriers of prejudice tumbling down faster than the walls at Jericho.
In a purely rugby context, his firsts are suitably Old Testament: the first Welsh son of West Indian immigrants from the Windrush Generation to play for his country, the first black British player to score a hat-trick in the World Cup, showing Chris Oti, Jason Robinson and Martin Offiah the way to go.
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