Ruthless Haden is fighting his final battle

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ANDY HADENwould be faintly amused to learn that he has now headed the list of rugby outlaws wanted in Wales for more than 40 years, a sort of latter-day Jesse James.
Many of the 50,000 at Cardiff Arms Park on Armistice Day 1978 claim to have witnessed a heist on a grander scale than any pulled off by the baddest man of the Wild West before he was shot in the back by one of his own gang, ‘the dirty little coward, Robert Ford’.
James merely robbed banks and stagecoaches. Haden, the legend goes, did something far worse. He robbed an entire nation, his premeditated action in the fin...

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