When the Lions toured SA in 1974, I was 10 years old, and had just started playing rugby at school the previous September. I worshipped JPR, he was the reason why I, an English kid, supported Wales in the 5 Nations. Those sideburns, the white hairband, the rolled down socks, he was iconic.
JPR was a banging player and you could smash him with an artic and he,d jump up and run off no bother,, he never lost a game to england ever! he was bullet proof, good man sorely missed!
When the Lions toured SA in 1974, I was 10 years old, and had just started playing rugby at school the previous September. I worshipped JPR, he was the reason why I, an English kid, supported Wales in the 5 Nations. Those sideburns, the white hairband, the rolled down socks, he was iconic.
JPR was a banging player and you could smash him with an artic and he,d jump up and run off no bother,,
he never lost a game to england ever!
he was bullet proof, good man sorely missed!