Wales legend JPR Williams recalls Wimbledon and that ‘99 call’

A big, fat book has just been published called 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded. It’s sat on the desk in my study and I’ll get round to reading it eventually, but already I can’t help wondering what the cultural historians are going to say about 1968 come its anniversary. If ’66 is deemed worthy of 672 pages, good luck to them finding room for all of this: the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, riots in Chicago, Paris and Tokyo, the Russians invading Prague and the start of Ireland’s Troubles, Enoch Powell’s incendiary immigration spee…