Pinetree Chews the Fat

“If you want a snapshot of the way rugby used to be, there is no more impressive monument to the past than Colin Meads, a man as straight as he was hard.” The Observer talks rugby, film, and controversy with the man we call Pinetree, the 64-year old legend who “still looks capable of sticking his head in a scrum.” Meads pronounces on everything from touch judges (“interfering”) to his blokeish modesty at recently being voted the greatest player of all time (“a judgment he accepts with the utmost reluctance.”).