Rugby Behind Barbed Wire
Rugby Behind Barbed Wire 'We spent all our time surrounded by police cordons and barbed wire, never mind having our bus hijacked...' - Tommy Bedford, Springboks No. Taking place during the time of…
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Rugby Behind Barbed Wire
'We spent all our time surrounded by police cordons and barbed wire, never mind having our bus hijacked...' - Tommy Bedford, Springboks No. Taking place during the time of South Africa's apartheid dispensation, the tour was characterised throughout by violent demonstrations against the 'ambassadors of apartheid.' Scenes of chanting demonstrators at the players' hotels and airports and protesters being dragged off the field of play by police were not uncommon. 82019 and 2020 mark the fiftieth anniversary of the controversial 1969/70 Springbok rugby tour of the British Isles - a landmark event on both a sporting and political level.
Smoke bombs and flour bombs also became a match-day fixture.These were wild and unnerving times for the players on tour, whose movements were badly inhibited, who had to play hide and seek to avoid possible violence, and in between also try to play some rugby.
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