The story has been told a number of times but remains a classic, highlighting how it used to be in Welsh derby matches.
A young Phil Bennett, skippering Llanelli aged just 19, knocked on the home dressing room door at The Gnoll with the referee ahead of a clash with Neath. The said door swung open and there stood the imposing figure of the legendary Wales forward Brian Thomas, a man as wide as he was tall, complete with black eye on this particular day, which may or may not have been sustained within the confines of his own dressing room.
Thomas looked as if he had just learned that a lorry had reversed over his new garden shed.
