In those days, the laid-back Baa Baas didn't bother with a coach, but - I think it was a first - we'd pulled in the late Carwyn James who'd been the Lions' coach in New Zealand to help. Derek Quinnell and Tommy David were drafted in.īut there was one saving grace. On top of that, on the Friday, Gerald Davies had to drop out with a pulled hamstring - and on the morning of the game itself, Mervyn Davies, our No 8, had to cry off with 'flu. It looked as if the wonderful back play which had been the hallmark of the '71 Lions was history. The next time I'd be giving him a hopeless pass. If I got the ball to Phil Bennett, he'd drop it. The only chance we'd had to train together was for a couple of days at Penarth, a small club ground outside Cardiff with a horrendous slope to it. We just didn't want a tonking, as they say in Swansea. A month earlier Wales had lost to New Zealand, and the crowd wanted revenge. Meantime, there was a mainly Welsh crowd at the Arms Park. (Well, yes, there was a nucleus of Lions, but the Baa Baas did choose their traditional uncapped player, Robert Wilkinson, a second row forward from Cambridge University.) And they groused that this wasn't a typical Barbarians side but a resurrection of the Lions team that had won the '71 series. Players wore black Stetsons, black capes. There was acrimony, warring factions in the team. The '72 All Blacks weren't the most popular side ever to tour Britain. It was the greatest try of all time scored against the most ruthless tacklers in the game. Sheringham replaced Jesper Blomqvist with 23 minutes left, but it was not until injury-time that he struck the equaliser, with the other substitute - Ole Gunnar Solskjaer - adding the winner even further into the added period.ģ Gareth Edwards' Baa Baas try against the All Blacks The is precisely what he did, of course, though the timing was extraordinary. I wanted us to get on and then get us back into the game.' I didn't want us to get back into it too early. I knew if we were still losing after 20 minutes I would get on. I wanted the team to get back into the game, but at the same time I didn't. 'The gaffer told me that if it was still one-nil after 20 minutes, he would give me a chance,' Sheringham later recalled. 2 Manchester United win the Treble in injury timeįor Teddy Sheringham, relegated to the Manchester United bench as he had been for most of the season, the second half of the 1999 European Cup final against Bayern Munich provided an unusual conundrum.
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