“Disgusting scenes — absolutely disgusting scenes. I don’t know how it happened, but you cannot react like this. That’s absolutely disgraceful.”
So uttered Jonathan Davies from the TV commentary box amid the stormy events which followed the U20 World Championship pool shoot-out between Wales U20s and their France counterparts in 2008.
The match took place in Swansea, and if the scenes didn’t involve tables being turned over and chairs being cracked across heads, with the obligatory old guy playing a piano in the corner, there was still more than a touch of the Wild West about what unfolded at the Liberty Stadium.