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Legend of the ‘Bearded Beast’ Esteve

PETER JACKSON

FOR sheer bloodthirsty brutality, no international fixture of the last half century has come remotely close to matching France-Wales in Paris of the mid-Seventies. The undercard rarely failed to provide a suitably tasty warm-up for the top-of-the-bill.
In the blue corner, ‘The Bearded Beast of Beziers’, Alain Esteve, 6ft 7in, 19 stone.
In the red corner, ‘The Iron Duke’, Bobby Windsor, 5ft 10in, 14st 7lbs.
The supreme hooker of his time from a by-gone age when scrumhalves fed the ball straight between the front rows as the law still requires...

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