Benny is born

Welsh Sports Hall of Fame Roll of Honour member Phil Bennett was born in Felinfoel on 24 October, 1948. He became the darling of his home town club, Llanelli, helping them to beat the All Blacks in 1972, a British & Irish Lions test series winner in South Africa in 1974, their tour captain in New Zealand in 1977 and a Grand Slam skipper with Wales in 1978. He won 29 caps for Wales and eight with the Lions, scoring 210 Test points. He is said to have delivered one of the most inspiring pre-match, dressing-room speeches to his team ahead of the annual Five Nations clash with England in 1977:

Look what these bastards have done to Wales. They’ve taken our coal, our water, our steel. They buy our homes and live in them for a fortnight every year. What have they given us? Absolutely nothing. We’ve been exploited, raped, controlled and punished by the English – and that’s who you are playing this afternoon.

He possessed one of the greatest sidesteps in the world game. Watch a few classic examples:
Wales v Scotland
Barbarians v New Zealand
British & Irish Lions v King Country-Wanganui