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JJ’s death makes date bitter-sweet for Delme

PETER JACKSON

Hero: Delme Thomas is carried off by delirious players and fans at the end of Llanelli’s defeat of the All Blacks in 1972

HIS innate modesty would never allow him to say so privately, let alone publicly, but Delme Thomas is still out on his own – the last captain of a Welsh team to beat the All Blacks.
Yesterday marked the 48th anniversary of surely the most famous rugby match anywhere in Wales during the last half century: Llanelli 9 New Zealand 3, Stradey Park, October 31, 1972. Thomas’ team talk in the privacy of a hotel outside town has become the stuf...

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