PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Shortly after noon on Monday, April 14, 1969, a bus joined the queue at Checkpoint Charlie pending clearance to pass through the Iron Curtain dividing Europe.
Those on board made up what must have been the strangest assortment of individuals ever assembled in the name of a national football team venturing from West Berlin into the Soviet empire: 15 officials, nine players and six supporters, all of whom had got there under their own steam.I know because I was there.
Wales had come to play the German Democratic Republic in Dresden. By the time...