Stephen Jones tells a nice story about how the one-and-only Ray Gravell would contact him when the then fly-half hit the odd bump in the road during his playing career.
“When I was Wales captain — or any time, for that matter, when I felt the world was against me — Grav would leave me the same message on my mobile phone, ‘Ti yw’r gorau’, which translated from Welsh into English means ‘You are the best’,” writes the 104-cap Wales international in his book, Stephen Jones, A Thinking Man’s Game: My Story.
“He almost had a sixth sense about when to leave a message; it would always be timed to perfection and was the ultimate pick-me-up.
