I first heard of the BBC’s long–serving Rugby commentator, Ian Robertson, from one of his Watsonians’ team-mates. “He’s got terrific acceleration and his break’s ******* electric,” he said. “He can’t see without his contact lenses and his hands are poor and he can’t ******* tackle, but give him the ball and watch him run”. Well, he did that well enough to win eight caps for Scotland and create one gorgeous try to enable Scotland to win the Calcutta Cup in 1970. There was good competition at fly-half then, from Gala’s Jock Turner and Hawick’s Colin Telfer
Paying tribute to Ian Robertson, one of the commentating greats
I first heard of the BBC’s long–serving Rugby commentator, Ian Robertson, from one of his Watsonians’ team-mates. “He’s got terrific acceleration and his break’s ******* electric,” he said. “He can’t see without his contact lenses and his hands are poor and he can’t ******* tackle, but give him the ball and watch him run”. Well, he did that well enough to win eight caps for Scotland and create one gorgeous try to enable Scotland to win the Calcutta Cup in 1970. There was good competition at fly-half then, from Gala’s Jock Turner and Hawick’s Colin Telfer
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