Windsor played an integral part in the front row, as they stood up to the considerable might of the South African pack, with his work allowing the backs outside him to thrive in the loose. Due to his success for Wales over the years, Bobby Windsor was also capped five times by the British Lions between 1974 and 1977. The middle man of the legendary Pontypool front row retired to Puerto Portals, Mallorca, in 2009 and said:”I can sit and look over the balcony at the Mediterranean and swimming pool. Bobby Windsor, one of the true legends of Wales and the Lions, today makes the distressing revelation that he planned to commit suicide.

Windsor will kick every ball and shove in every scrum for Wales against the All Blacks on Saturday but fears it will be the same old story, with one subtle difference.

Luckily, they phoned the caravan site in Tenby and spoke to the woman who owned the caravan next to ours. Aston Villa star Alisha Lehmann strikes a pose in glittery dress as she shares her 25th birthday party snaps. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. More Information Description: Lions legend Bobby Windsor has enjoyed triumphs beyond the dreams of most international players but has also suffered personal tragedy.

Ad Feature BOOSTED odds of 20/1 available for Sadio Mane, Sammie Szmodics and Romelu Lukaku to all score in 90 minutes. A friend who does my life insurance policy rang to make plans for a routine medical and they found a speck of blood in my water. The New Zealanders always go on about passion and pride and the Haka, but there wasn’t anything for them to be proud of in what happened that day. Marcus Rashford arrives at Man United's training ground with his agent brother to face the music with Erik. In a wide-ranging chat, Windsor talks about the best and worst days of his career, that remarkable ‘74 Lions trip, his greatest captain, the dirtiest players he came up against and what he thinks about the modern-day game.Virgil van Dijk is unwilling to commit his future to Liverpool after Jurgen Klopp's exit, with just 18. Robert Windsor made his debut for Wales against Australia in 1973 at Cardiff, a match Wales won by 24 points to nil with Windsor scoring a hooker's try, and took over from Jeff Young as first-choice hooker. I saw him play on a couple of occasions and would not have relished being on the opposing side playing hooker.

A steelworker by trade, Bobby Windsor began playing rugby as a back, featuring at either fullback or fly-half. He was ideally suited to the highly mobile and aggressive packs developed at Pontypool in the seventies which made them one of the most feared sides in the land. He now fishes, plays golf and has offered to pay for a 60-something woman to visit, so he can take her for meals and get to know her.It covers his career from the very beginning, through playing for Pontypool and Wales before becoming a legend for the Lions in South Africa in 1974. The Lions would take the Boks so low in the scrum that Windsor would sometimes hook with his head before driving over them, there being no law then about keeping shoulders above the hips. He was also vicious, the most cold-hearted brute you would never wish to see standing over you at a ruck. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in December 2005 and underwent surgery to remove his prostate before receiving radiation treatment. Then there was Willie John McBride on the Lions tour to South Africa in 1974 and everyone knows what a huge figure he was.

Unsettled seemingly by a frightening internal flight, Windsor was never at the top of his game and the New Zealand rugby public never really saw the best of this legend of Welsh rugby. His friends will be shocked to learn that the laughing cavalier from the greatest Lions team of all decided to take his own life during the turmoil which engulfed him after the double devastation of prostate cancer followed by the break-up of his marriage.I feel so terrible and guilty about it now when you think of all the sick people, especially children, literally fighting for their lives. However, the Test series did not end in glory this time, as New Zealand ran out 3-1 winners, but it rounded off a legendary Lions career.