“Look what these b*****ds have done to Wales. They’ve taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our homes and live in them for a fortnight every year. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing. We’ve been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English – and that’s who you are playing this afternoon.”

– Phil Bennett’s pre-match chat with his Welsh team-mates at Cardiff Arms Park in 1977. Let’s just say the speech did the trick. Wales were up for it, and punished their visitors by winning 14-9.