The scene is Stradey Park and a capacity crowd has just watched a typically tumultuous Llanelli v Swansea derby which has seen the visitors’ second-row warhorse Dick Moriarty sent off amid howls of rage from the home crowd.
After the game, a group of Scarlets supporters trooped into the social club to deliberate on proceedings. They assumed they’d be first to order their post-match pints. They were wrong. At the bar was a lone figure wearing a Swansea blazer who was already sipping a beer. It was Moriarty himself. “Fronting up,” one of those who witnessed the scene later said.
You wouldn’t expect anything else. Richard Daniel Moriarty celebrated his 65th birthday last weekend. Where have all the years gone?
