Gareth Edwards, greatest rugby player of all time!!
My second cousin.
Gareth Edwards awarded CBE
Sat 30 Dec, 12:13 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - Gareth Edwards, voted the greatest player of all time in a Rugby World magazine poll, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours list.
The former Wales captain, 59, played scrumhalf for the 1971 British and Irish Lions team who remain the only Lions side to win a series in New Zealand.
"Gareth Edwards has achieved iconic status as a rugby player and is universally respected as a sporting role model," the Government said in a statement on Saturday.
Edwards was also a member of the unbeaten 1974 Lions in South Africa.
Welshman Ian Woosnam, captain of the European team who beat the United States in the Ryder Cup for the third time in a row this year, was given an OBE (Officer of the Order).
Zara Phillips, the individual three-day event world champion, and England and Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard were awarded MBEs (Member of the Order).
Phillips is the granddaughter of the Queen.
Becki
Is he really, or are you winding me up?
Cabbagepatch
Anyone Welsh is his cousin
Becki
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Cabbagepatch
smirk
Becki
*splutter* more like!
Cabbagepatch
i may be in trouble when he reads this
Becki
We've sucessfully hijacked his thread i think!!!!!
Cabbagepatch
Becki
lovely weather we have for this time of year?
Cabbagepatch
um no. i like it cold, sunny and frosty. then i cheer up.
Becki
I hate this time of year but I'm losing the plot now anyway
lloyd
ahem........
Becki
Sorry, but we did have fun!!!!! *sheepishly*
Cabbagepatch
yes, indeed we did, much spluttering had by us both