In 84 I was with the Australian touring side, their last game was v the Barbarians and they spent their last night in Jacksons night club, I was invited to go back to the then Crest hotel on Canton bridge invited by their captain, the great Mark Ella.....
His words "has a token of our appreciation for looking after us will you come back to our hotel for a drink and a bit of hospitality too" ale-shorts etc was on a help yourself basis, so you can imagine I tucked in and drank up too...
They had the whole floor of level three,.....
We arrived at 3-30 am approx, greeted by loud music, as we walked from Jacksons to the Crest up Westgate street,The Irish number 8 was with us [sorry his name escapes me at this moment in time] when we arrived M-E ask me if I wanted any sandwiches and I said yes please [as I had obviously been working all evening and night] he phoned up and we had ham sandwiches at 4am app , I left there at 10am to get a taxi home, so are the facilities in this current hotel in the Vale adequate ???? and considering this was 1984 too.
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Or did he A-P do it out of bravado and failing to hold his drink and hoping no one would actually see them being it was 5-40 am when they arrived at Caple llaniltern services on jct 33 to get a cooked breakfast? There is a dedicated lane for traffic turning off here for the duration from the time he had joined the M4 at Miskin, so someone obviously must have phoned the Bill .......
Just thought of the Irish number 8 Willie Anderson.......