Sardinia is a land whose past is riddled with bloody brigandry and often inexplicable feuding; a land which at various times in the past has bowed the knee to such untoward arrivals as the Vandals and the Goths (not to mention the supreme midfield general of his day, Napoleon Bonaparte).
Seru completed the Fijian try-count while Scott Pierce clawed one back for the bemused Kiwis. Pierce, having bowed the knee once, decided to do so again after the game when he proposed to girlfriend Jane Harris under the posts.
He transformed himself into an heroic king of England , and the theatrical court bowed the knee. He played Henry V in February 1949 on his beloved BBC radio, the home of the Word and poetry and all that mattered.