Rugby fan stars in Six Nations TV promo
BBC - Rugby fan Rob stars in Six Nations TV promo Nice story about Paul Thorburn's legendary 70 metre penalty kick against Scotland in 1986. I can remember that a couple of days after the kick my then sports editor suggested I get hold of Thorburn and get him to re-create the monster kick. It was a wet Wednesday, I think, when photographer John Corbett and I trudged off to the Swansea University playing fields to meet Thorburn. I measured the distance of the kick out on the pitch and Thorburn, being a good sport, tried for the posts. After about a dozen attempts, he had to give up; it was raining and there was a swirling wind coming in from Mumbles. Corbett used a bit of technical wizardry and managed to conjure up a sequence of photos which made it look as if the ball sailed through the posts at Ashleigh Road. I managed to get creative and scribble a 750-word centre spread feature for The Sporting (Green paper). OK, I was economical with the truth about Thorburn's attempt to r...