Drunken yobs end Craig’s 50-year Wales love affair

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Craig James has been watching Wales since his father took him at the age of nine for what turned out to be Gareth Edwards’ first international try at the Arms Park.
He has hardly missed a match during the half century since that late January day in 1970, his investment of £10,000 in debentures maintaining the family tradition of taking his sons to see their team just as his dad, a steelworker from Maesteg, had taken him.
They were there, as usual, last weekend but unless there is a collective change of minds they won’t be going back, not for thi...

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