Farewell Benny: Dear friend, team-mate and rugby genius

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Farewell Benny: Dear friend, team-mate and rugby genius
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✍️'A passionate Welshman and fierce competitor, but above all a man with great humanity and an ability to see the good in almost any situation,' |Writes Sir Ian McGeechan

Phil Bennett was a team-mate, a fellow Lions tourist, and a friend. Benny was not just a wonderful rugby player but an exceptional human being. I played alongside him for eight Lions tests in 1974 and 1977, and got a real sense of him as both a player and a man. Even at the time I thought that each outing was a rare privilege, and the passage of time has not dulled my appreciation of his genius.

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