Once, a 1990s Wales player told how he’d try to avoid the fallout from a Test defeat by staying at home with curtains closed and the telephone left off the hook for several days.
Newspapers wouldn’t be looked at. There'd be no walks through the park with his dog — perhaps for fear other mutts might bite him after some of the lamentable team efforts in those days.
You wonder how that particular chap and others would have coped in the internet age, where feedback can be instant and beyond bruising?
