Putting the boot in – but not if it’s bright green …

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Tawera Kerr-Barlow’s fluorescent green boots, as worn when La Rochelle dared to give Leinster a 17-point start in Dublin and still beat them, provided another colourful illustration of changing attitudes.
Richard Webster, a popular member of the last amateur Lions tour, to New Zealand 30 years ago, was, and still is, most definitely old-school on the colour of footwear. During his manful struggle to find a team, and then equip it, during his time as coach of
Maesteg, Webster persuaded an old prop to come out of retirement on condition the club boug...

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