A Welsh writer once admitted to shedding a tear when hearing over the radio that Wales had beaten South Africa for the first time.
He even stated where he was and what he was doing at the very point the news came over. Driving across the M4, not far from Port Talbot, since you ask, in 1999. The chap in question had been brought up believing that South Africa were a team Wales couldn’t beat.
Welsh sides had defeated the All Blacks three times, after all, in the early years of matches between the nations, but not the Springboks. They were a team Wales rarely played and when they did the verdict always went the way of the opposition. A generation or three of schoolboys grew up thinking it was some kind of iron sporting rule.
