• Gatland early with his Wales team to face England
March 1987. English rugby was in critical condition and in grave danger of flatlining. The national team had won four Five Nations matches in as many years but had at least shown some fight despite two defeats in two games at the halfway stage of the latest championship. A 17-0 hiding by Ireland in Dublin was followed by a dogged display against the reigning champions, France, at Twickenham where England’s chairman of selectors was encouraged by the spirited performance of his team’s forwards. Mike Weston, for it was he, believed it was a game of rugby they could and possibly should have won.
A former England centre who had been capped 29 times, Weston had been a member of the last England side to beat Wales on their own patch 24 years previously. It was an embarrassing record that needed to be rectified and on the morning of his team’s latest trip to Cardiff, he sounded cautiously optimistic in the Guardian. “The forward play against France gave us a lot of hope,” he said.
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