My redneck farmer dad took us kids to our first sookah games at QE II Park, where the AWs had 1 or 2 warmup friendlies (Hungary??) in the leadup to Espana '82.
He had played, reffed & coached rugby all his life. Once apparently whacked Grizz Wylie in a North Canterbury club game. He went to Lancaster Park to watch the Springboks in 1981 sans us kids, as he thought it was too dangerous.
At the beginning of 1982 all the boys at Amberley Primary School wanted to switch from rugby to the world game, but the staunch old school headmaster (he coached the local senior rugby club team) forbade it. From memory he just took the football off us at lunch time.
I remember at high school in the late 80s kids still agruing over the merits of the '81 tour, basically parroting the polarising views of their parents.
It was a different time & place. Surprising a movie has never come out about it all.
Visited the prison that held Mandela and the ANC guys on Robben Island near Cape Town and thought back to '81.
He had played, reffed & coached rugby all his life. Once apparently whacked Grizz Wylie in a North Canterbury club game. He went to Lancaster Park to watch the Springboks in 1981 sans us kids, as he thought it was too dangerous.
At the beginning of 1982 all the boys at Amberley Primary School wanted to switch from rugby to the world game, but the staunch old school headmaster (he coached the local senior rugby club team) forbade it. From memory he just took the football off us at lunch time.
I remember at high school in the late 80s kids still agruing over the merits of the '81 tour, basically parroting the polarising views of their parents.
It was a different time & place. Surprising a movie has never come out about it all.
Visited the prison that held Mandela and the ANC guys on Robben Island near Cape Town and thought back to '81.