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Episode 2209: Second Captains Book Of The Year Winner Willie Anderson On Months In An Argentinian Junta Prison, Tragedy, Facing The Haka And An Extraordinary Life

Fri 10th Dec 2021
Eoin, Murph, Willie Anderson

Willie Anderson’s autobiography Crossing The Line won our Sports Book of the Year last week, so we felt it was only right to catch up with the man himself.

His first foray with widespread notoriety was when he was thrown in an Argentinian jail for months after stealing a flag from outside a diplomatic office while on a rugby tour. He later became known as the man who faced down the Haka in thrilling style in Lansdowne Road, but that’s not even half the story of an extraordinary, tragic, uplifting rugby life.

©INPHO/Billy Stickland

There’s also the return of Frances Murphy’s TV Guide to the sporting weekend, and Eoin reveals the sort of puerile humour that drove Irish sporting banner in the 1980s.

©INPHO/Morgan Treacy

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