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Days when Griffiths was an outcast in his own country

Clive Griffiths witnessed the evils of apartheid South Africa during a rugby tour there almost 40 years ago and thought he had seen the last of it. Within months of returning home, the newly-capped Wales full back found himself a victim of ‘rugby apartheid’, shunned and ostracised by Rugby Union because they deemed him guilty of the heinous crime of converting to Rugby League.
After less than half a match for Wales, a Triple Crown clincher against England at Cardiff Arms Park on St Patrick’s Day 1979, Griffiths enhanced his reputation by making the most of 20-odd minutes a...

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