Bobby Windsor - The Iron Duke: The Life and Times of a Working-Class Rugby Hero

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Fellow team mates offer contributions that go some way to explaining why Windsor was such an unstoppable force in a team littered with quality players. Mr Windsor is scathing but not personally rude about today's calibre of players especially the much disempowered scrummage.

In fact, the Pontypool quartet, which also included flanker Terry Cobner, was the largest contingent from a single club in the squad.His rugby career as the best hooker in the British Isles during the second golden era of Welsh rugby in the 1970s is a turbulent tale of blood and thunder on the pitch. LIVERPOOL CONFIDENTIAL: Jurgen Klopp's shock exit will spark a summer of turmoil, Ruben Amorim joins Xabi. Windsor's irrepressible sense of humour comes shining through on every page, except when he gives chapter and verse on the personal crisis that drove him to plan suicide. no TMO, no multiple TV cameras, no interference from the touch judges, no big screen analysis of "dirty" play.

You always look back as a player and that game stands out as the biggest disappointment of my career. Having played at Brynglas and Cross Keys his job as a steelworker soon developed him into a strong and muscular player. It immortalizes Bobby Windsor at the height of his career when he was admired by fans across Wales and beyond.It’s the pinnacle of everything, I had been chuffed to be selected for Wales and the Lions was brilliant.

His friends will be shocked to learn that the laughing cavalier from the greatest Lions team of all decided to take his own life during the turmoil which engulfed him after the double devastation of prostate cancer followed by the break-up of his marriage. FIFA's The Best awards row: Multiple voters 'made mistakes' with their votes - in a system that saw Lionel. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in December 2005 and underwent surgery to remove his prostate before receiving radiation treatment.There was another game where one of their props was coming across in the scrum and having a nibble of my ear. Windsor will kick every ball and shove in every scrum for Wales against the All Blacks on Saturday but fears it will be the same old story, with one subtle difference. It was like the World Cup final of the day, probably the two best teams in the world up against each other. I know it sounds like sour grapes, but when you know it was planned on the Friday night that they were going to do it, that still rankles all these years later. The one thing I will never forget as long as I live is them jumping out of the lineout just before the end.