Welsh rugby legend Barry John dies aged 79. The former fly-half notably contributed to a historic Grand Slam in 1971.
Retired at just 27 after a truncated edition of the 1972 Tournament. “I was no longer sufficiently equipped mentally and physically to continue to face high-level rugby,” lamented Mervyn Davies, his former teammate, in the book “The Lions of Wales’. The death comes less than a month after that of JPR Williams, one of his former accomplices.