Fearless, confident and supremely gifted, David Bishop could take on the world as a rugby player.
The late Neath team boss Brian Thomas, who had seen a few top players in his time, called him the finest player in the northern hemisphere in Bishop’s 1980s pomp. The one-cap Wales international himself said: "Before I went north to join Hull KR in June 1988 I was not only the best Welsh scrum half, I was the world's best.”
It says everything that the contention could not be dismissed out of hand. Nothing fazed him.
