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Willie John still can’t forgive ‘cowards’ who denied Irish

Peter Jackson remembers another chaotic season that scuppered Ireland’s chance of a Grand Slam

Irish Lion: The great Mike Gibson

Green giant: Willie John McBride competes in the lineout with Chris Ralston as Ireland beat England 16-12 at Twickenham on February 12, 1972

Grand Slams have vanished in all kinds of spring weather, from Arctic squalls at a refrigerated Murrayfield to the sun blazing out of a cloudless sky above the old Empire Stadium at Wembley.
England lost on both occasions, undone in the last match of the Five Nations and in similarly anti-climactic circumstances 1...

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