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Article: Rebel with a cause Hain recalls his days on the rugby protest frontline.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- November 19, 2002
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Byline: CAROLYN HITT
WHEN Peter Hain arrived in Neath - birthplace of the Welsh Rugby Union and home of the Welsh All Blacks - he was better known for disrupting rugby than supporting it.
As he hit the by-election campaign trail eleven years ago, his prospective constituents reminded him of a turbulent November 1969 afternoon in Swansea.
``I had people coming up to me saying `I'm a Labour voter but you spoiled my Saturday','' recalls the newly-installed Welsh Secretary.
The disturbances at that Swansea v South Africa match at the St ...