hey ethic if you and i were both courting lily allen..... oh wait, which one of us has a relationship that lasted more than the bus ride home?
THOSE WERE THE DAYS: The former Scotland lock Gordon Brown passed away from cancer in 2001, much mourned by those who hung on every word of his richly-told anecdotes.During the brutal Third Test in 1974, in between the fighting and McBride's all-in 99 call, there was a shriek from one of the Springbok forwards.Johannes de Bruyn had lost his glass eye and the warring packs ceased fire to find it in the mud, whereupon De Bruyn popped it back in its socket."And there was Cyclops," recalled Brown, "with tufts of grass hanging from behind his eye. I stood in amazement. He just nodded."Years later, with Brown in failing health, De Bruyn came to London for a fund-raising dinner, confirmed the story was true and presented his old adversary with the glass eye mounted on a carved wooden rugby ball.
