Edwards: relax and you can conquer Springboks

GARETH EDWARDS was a worried man as he left for South Africa in 1974.

The Cardiff scrum-half had been in the party that had lost the series 3-0 to the Springboks six years before but it was the enormously successful tour to New Zealand in between that was giving him the willies before his latest visit to the Cape.

The 1971 series win was the Lions’ first since the Second World War and it changed the landscape drastically ahead of the near three-month tour to South Africa.