A steelworker by trade, Bobby Windsor began playing rugby as a back, featuring at either fullback or fly-half. The one thing I will never forget as long as I live is them jumping out of the lineout just before the end. At 16st-plus, he was built like a prop at a time of light hookers, and on the 1974 Lions tour of South Africa he proved he was one of the great scrummaging front-rowers. It was a tour which placed Windsor as one of the best in his position, with his technical ability and dynamism in the loose the key features of his game. The trio played together for Wales 19 times and also for the Lions in Fiji on 16 August 1977 (the day that Elvis died).

Virgil van Dijk is unwilling to commit his future to Liverpool after Jurgen Klopp's exit, with just 18. If a Pooler winger had worn one in my day, Pross would have told us to forget about the opposition and get him instead! Robert Windsor was selected for two British Lions tours and in 1974 on the Lions tour of South Africa Windsor played in all the tests.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

A steelworker by trade, Windsor actually began his rugby union career as a back, playing at fullback and fly-half, but became famous as a hooker. Rugby Union when Mr Windsor played was not for the faint-hearted and one had to be prepared to do things during a match that would no doubt today result in the 'aggressor' being sent to prison and the 'victim' claiming compensation and expensive trauma therapy!

I said I couldn’t go straight in to hospital because Wales were playing an international that Saturday and I was going. He made three appearances in 1945–46 and with the war coming to an end Windsor had the opportunity to being to push for a first team place. The valley clubs were great, everyone was saying well done and having a few pints and had a collection to help me on my way.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Gloucester head coach George Skivington was happy to end a “painful” run of nine Premiership defeats with their bonus-point 32-20 win over Sale. The Lions would take the Boks so low in the scrum that Windsor would sometimes hook with his head before driving over them, there being no law then about keeping shoulders above the hips. This snapshot perfectly encapsulates Windsor's passion for the game as well as his unwavering commitment to success.

Police arrest man, 23, after a bottle was thrown at Man United's team bus ahead of match against Liverpool. Windsor played 14 matches on that Tour, including the first Test, and scored his only Lions try in the match against New Zealand Juniors. He says he was always hungry as a kid and hooker Bobby Windsor played his rugby with that same ferocious appetite for Wales and the Lions during a golden age for both teams. After rising through the ranks at Cross Keys and then Pontypool, he earned his first international cap with Wales in 1973, against Australia, and he marked the occasion by scoring a try in a 24-0 victory. On what it was like to be selected by the Lions for the first time, Windsor said: “I was the only player to be picked from Monmouthshire so I had plenty of pats on the back from all the boys in and around the valleys.

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The title of the book sums Bobby Windsor up pretty well and it was a great read from start to finish. Windsor will kick every ball and shove in every scrum for Wales against the All Blacks on Saturday but fears it will be the same old story, with one subtle difference. In fact, the Pontypool quartet, which also included flanker Terry Cobner, was the largest contingent from a single club in the squad. The old hooker, revered the rugby world over as ‘The Duke’ for his fearless ferocity on the pitch and bonhomie off it, never intended to live to tell the tale.