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Peter Jackson: When Dafydd James asked ref to end the misery

When the roof caved in on Wales and their predicament cried out for someone to put a humane end to the flogging, one spectator felt the collective pain more than any other.
Dafydd James playing for Wales against South Africa in 1998 Cardiff rematch

When the roof caved in on Wales and their predicament cried out for someone to put a humane end to the flogging, one spectator felt the collective pain more than any other.

Dafydd James, a try-scorer when the Lions became the last British or Irish team to win a Test of any kind at The Gabba, looked down on a scene horribly reminiscent of Pretoria ‘nightmare’ during the African winter of 1998.
Not so much a soul-destroying experience, more a case, in his words, ‘of your soul being hollowed out live on television’.
The memories flooding his mind of what the Springboks did to Wales back then m...

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