WHAT happened next? If the build up to the match is complicated, so is its legacy. The short term is easier so let’s go there first. Ringer, the man in the middle of the maelstrom, received an eight-week ban – harsh even by modern standards – and cruelly never played for Wales again. At the peak of his powers he would have been a shoe-in for a starting place at openside flanker with the 1980 Lions in South Africa where he would surely have flourished.
As it was the Lions made do with three natural blind-sides in their back row -Jeff Squire, Derek Quinnell and John...