'Woollers'

[Sweder]

Here's an anecdote for you, pinched from a piece in The Times:

Forty winters ago, during England's Test match at Port Elizabeth - Ian's first tour - some black South Africans who had attempted to watch the cricket were beaten up by police. Ian's telephone line went down, so the Mail copytakers in London contacted him through the phone in the committee-room. He had written his piece; now he had to read it at the top of his voice in the presence of about 30 members of the republic's ruling Broederband. He could have altered his intro. Instead, he took a deep breath and dictated: "The wretchedly evil face of apartheid was displayed here today when ..."

Yes, he would say years later, "I was fairly proud of myself at that moment."