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...