Peter Jackson: Anglo-Saxon conspiracy still fires up the Welsh dragons

Amid the heroics, the heartache and wails of Welsh injustice over their shabby treatment at Twickenham, the name of a long-forgotten England prop springs to mind, writes Peter Jackson.

Keith Fairbrother, the Coventry tighthead who wound up owning the club, let rip on the eve of an England-Wales match, leaving no doubt as to how he felt about the next-door neighbours. He “hated them” and couldn’t “stand to lose to them”.

“Welshmen are bad losers,” he went on, as if he hadn’t made himself clear enough. “If they win, they gloat. If they lose, they moan. I don’t think we rub it in enough when we win.”