Llanelli rugby historian Les Williams still remembers the headmaster at his old school announcing the result of a match against Coleshill Secondary Modern: “Our boys six points, Phil Bennett 27.”
The point was, chuckles ex-Stradey Secondary Modern pupil Les, the young Benny was winning games on his own.
“He was an incredible rugby player, as good as he was modest," he says. “At the time, there were so many good fly-halves about. But Phil was a once-in-a-generation player.”
