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VIDEO: The greatest try of all time happened 40 years ago today

“If the greatest writer of the written word would’ve written that story no-one would have believed it. That really was something.”

“KIRKPATRICK TO WILLIAMS. This is great stuff!

“Phil Bennett covering chased by Alistair Scown. Brilliant, oh, that’s brilliant!

“John Williams, Bryan Williams. Pullin. John Dawes, great dummy. To David, Tom David, the half-way line!

“Brilliant by Quinnell!

“This is Gareth Edwards! A dramatic start! What a score!!…..Oh that fellow Edwards….

“If the greatest writer of the written word would’ve written that story no-one would have believed it. That really was something.”

Commentator Cliff Morgan describes the greatest try of all time by Gareth Edwards, which put the Barbarians on their way to a 23-11 win over New Zealand in Cardiff Arms Park on January 27, 1973.

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