David Irwin was a spectator, Willie Anderson was convicted for his part, but just who was the third man who took the flag down...
Rugby never knew the old Buenos Aires before the Falklands War with its tango music, its glamour and easy charm.
Anderson’s time in Argentina would also make for a classic film, being arrested, jailed and convicted of stealing a flag from a government building. “He had the chance to say anything and he didn’t do so...I sorta made a moral or a value whenever that person didn’t come forward. We are not mentioning you. If you wanna be like that, fine.”
“When we had got to Buenos Aires, we had seen the Mother of the Disappeared protesting near the pink house, the Presidential Palace. These were the Madres de Plaza Mayo who would gather every Thursday in front of the Palace. The opening games in Cordoba and Parana were tough and, having beaten Banco Nacional on August 10, the Penguins were out celebrating a third win.
“Next thing, there were five or six policemen on the scene, heavily armed and wearing those long blue coats. They are fairly agitated. They want the flag back. ‘No hay problema, amigos’. And they want the culprits as well. That was tricky. Anderson talks of being stripped naked, fingerprinted and, later on that day, listening to a man from the British embassy begin to explain the nightmare:
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