Was it really 40 years the scene for Benny’s

THERE’S so much to remember about sport in 1977 — including Johan Cruyff and the Dutch handing England a Total Football masterclass at Wembley, Geoff Boycott lording it over Australia at Headingley with his 100th first-class century and Glamorgan’s Mike Llewellyn smashing a six in the Gillette Cup final which travelled over the Lord’s pavilion and possibly over Reading, Swindon, Bristol Parkway and the Severn Tunnel as well.

Bjorn Borg v Vitas Gerulaitis in the Wimbledon men’s singles semifinals wasn’t half bad that year, either.

But one moment still managed to rise above all those for many rugby supporters in Wales.

It was day the national side manufactured a glorious try that really defined a decade.

Maybe it even deserves to be called the great Wales touchdown ever scored.

Certainly, when BBC Wales in 2007 invited people to vote for the greatest Wales try in the Five/Six Nations, this effort took the prize.

It arrived during the Scotland v Wales match at Murrayfield.

Really, it wasn’t so much a try as a rhapsody, involving stunning audacity, dazzling invention and sublime skills, spanning 23 seconds and seeing a Five Nations defence utterly shredded.

And, remember, the blokes doing the shredding were amateurs who trained for just two nights a week.

There was even a classic TV commentary from Bill McLaren to go with it.

Forty years on, and ahead of Wales’s away date against the Scots on Saturday, it is a ruby anniversary worth celebrating.