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Whatever happens, it won’t match the bile of 1980

ONEoutcome of England- Wales can be predicted without fear of contradiction, that it will not be as nasty on or off the field as it was 40 years ago. It will not even come remotely close to the mass lawlessness of February 16, 1980.
It took place when 100,000 steelworkers were into the sixth week of a national strike, two days after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had cut benefits to the strikers by 50 per cent.
As England’s captain Bill Beaumont wrote in his biography: “We were being blamed for the closure of coal mines in Wales. If we had also been blamed for the weather and ...

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