The Daily Mail (London, England), March 1st, 2002
Byline: PETER JACKSON;RAY MATTS THE French used to have a second row forward known as The Beast of Beziers, a fearsome, bearded giant who rarely missed a crunching trick in support of his nickname. Alain Esteve stood out even in a decade notorious for its violence, a Seventies hit-man whose name sprang to mind yesterday when two of his more colourful British contemporaries put the Martin Johnson punch into some sort of historical perspective. As the Welsh Lion Bobby Windsor, the 'Iron Duke' of Pontypool, readily confessed: 'It was a brutal game in those days. Everything went and everyone wa...
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