There are moments in every player’s career that give them sleepless nights, yet few get to linger on them for as long as Gus Black.

Now a very chipper 92, the oldest surviving Lion is still haunted by a moment in the first Test against New Zealand in 1950 when he spurned an opportunity to topple the All Blacks in their fortress stadium at Dunedin. The game ended 8-8; the Lions ended up losing the four-Test series 3-0.

“I shall go to my grave – which is now sooner rather than later – knowing I shall never forgive myself for not beating them," Black recalls. "I broke from the scrum and there was space, but outside me, unbeknownst to me, was Ken Jones, with nothing in front of him. We were just outside the 25 so it was a certain score in between the posts and I neither saw him nor heard him.”