Half a century on and Delme Thomas has just bumped into a man on the street claiming ‘I was there’.
“The number of people who say that to me,” laughs the captain of the Llanelli team which beat the All Blacks in perhaps rugby’s greatest upset. “I don’t believe half of them. If they had all been there we'd have had 100,000 at Stradey.”
Monday marks the 50th anniversary of a 9-3 win celebrated so hard and for so long that, famously, the pubs in the Carmarthenshire town ran dry.
