CHRIS HEWETT

We've all heard it: “You don’t beat Wales at rugby – you just score more points than them.”
Like many sporting quips masquerading as truisms, this one tends to shrivel in the glare of scrutiny. “They looked pretty beaten to me,” smirked one of the Springboks who thumped Kingsley Jones’ befuddled tourists 96-13 on a gruesome afternoon in Pretoria a little over a quarter of a century ago.
Even so, there is something about the ancient one-liner that tickles the fancy, not least because there are two ways of reading it. Is it accusatory – a sardonic response to an apparent Welsh ...