The Scotland international centre Jim Renwick once said after a narrow Scottish defeat by Ireland: “We’d have played much better had Bill McLaren been commentating.”
Call that Bill’s commentary-box superpower, perhaps.
Twenty-years ago this term, one of sport’s best-loved commentators worked on his final Test match, a Six Nations assignment between Wales and Scotland in Cardiff. Really, it was a woeful game to send him off with, littered with handling errors, poor decisions, ill-directed kicks and slapdash play.
