PETER JACKSON

OF all the tributes pouring forth from the great and the good over the death of Tom Smith, Jim Telfer’s stood out, his words all the more poignant for their striking simplicity. “He was my kind of player,’’ the grand old Scottish Lion said. “No fear and no bother.’’
Smith would have approved because he and Telfer had something in common beyond Scotland and the Lions. Words were too precious to be wasted on waffle and so one or two would suffice but never said in an unfriendly way.
Telfer, of course, could growl for Scotland when the situation demanded. Smith, by contrast, rare...