Windsor awaits a lineout during the British & Irish Lions' tour of New Zealand in 1977
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Wales and Lions legend Bobby Windsor talks to the Wales on Sunday's Simon Thomas about life at the sharp end, his hardest rivals and why he’d love life on the front row today.
"Ask Bobby Windsor whether he was afraid before a match and he replies with an immediate, “No.”
But then, after a brief pause, he changes his mind “I was frightened about playing out in France,” he admits. “I had to get an aeroplane! I didn’t like that.”
"And that’s Bobby in a nutshell, a man who can deliver a punchline as effectively as he could deliver a punch.
"The reason for our conversation was to let him know that he’d been chosen as No 1 in our list of Welsh rugby’s hard men.
"Seldom has anything I’ve written ever produced such a response as my piece on the top 50 tough guys, with thousands upon thousands of hits on our website and a deluge of comments. People have come up with loads of suggestion of players who might have made the list, while others have questioned the running order.
"But no-one had argued with my choice of Bobby as No 1."
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