Respect! Anscombe the hero as Wales get it right this time

By PETER JACKSON

South Africa ....12pts
Penalties: Pollard 6, 44, 52, 59

Wales..................13pts
Tries: Adams 78
Conversions: Anscombe 79
Penalties: Biggar 1, Anscombe 66
WHEN he lined up that touchline conversion, Gareth Anscombe had no way of knowing the magnitude of a shot at making history on a global scale.
The man who spent almost three years refusing to abandon his career despite recurring knee surgery would have known, of course, that Wales had never beaten the Springboks in South Africa. He would have been sick, sore and tired reading about it.
What the almost forg...

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