The former Wales rugby captain and renowned broadcaster Eddie Butler, who has passed away at the age of 65, lived life his way. When he stopped enjoying Test rugby, at the age of 27, he announced his retirement from the international game.
He had opinions and wasn’t afraid to air them.
But the Cambridge University graduate also possessed the gift of perspective. In 2007, journeying back from Nantes with the late Robin Davey, then of the South Wales Argus newspaper, and this writer, it seemed all around in red were having a collective breakdown of sorts, just hours after Wales had been knocked out of the World Cup after defeat to Fiji.
