Should politics be kept out of sport ?
Did you buy South African goods, gems, precious metals, wine etc ?, because many that said sportsman should not play the Bok did hypocritically buy their goods and services.
Wales national rugby team and the village team where I originate from toured South Africa before they was banned by the Olympics and by FIFA (for the record our national team lost in 64 but the upper Neath valley village team did beat multiple teams full of Springbok players preparing for the test match but that is another story).
England played them during the height of apartheid, the Lions did with the blessing of the home unions but that was not Wales, English cricketers used to play cricket out there in our winter for their first class teams.
I'm not convinced Wales sports players have a case to answer, we play England, USA, China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Israel in sports as it is and we trade with them as well. | |
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