So, the question you haven’t all been asking yourselves is, “what did Kevin get me for my birthday?” Well, it was a DVD of a rugby match. But not any rugby match. It is 1973, at Cardiff Arms Park, and Gareth Edwards leads the Barbarians all-star team out for a match against the mighty All Blacks. The game will become legendary, and the style of play exhibited will serve as an ideal to which rugby administrators (outside England) will aspire for decades to come.

As well as Edwards, the Barbarians team includes many members of the famous 1970s Welsh side: Phil Bennet, JPR Williams, John Dawes, John Bevan and Derek Quinnell, to name but a few. It also contains giants of the Irish game: Mike Gibson, Willie John McBride and Fergus Slattery, plus possibly the greatest ever English rugby player, the mercurial David Duckham. This being the 70s, the All Black side sports the unlikely facial hair of Sid Going and Grant Batty. To be honest, the speed and aggression are not up to the standard of the modern game, but considering that these guys were all amateurs it is very impressive indeed.