The truly unique story of eight brothers who played rugby for Cardiff, when it was known as ‘the greatest club in the world’. The author was lucky to see the youngest four Williams brothers play many times, sometimes in the same team. The brothers played 1,480 times for Cardiff, from 1933 to 1974, with the careers of the three eldest being affected by service in WWII and of the next three by two years of National Service. Lloyd Williams captained Cardiff and Wales, and Bleddyn Williams captained Cardiff and Wales to inflict the only two defeats on the 1953 All Blacks tour of Britain. Eight brothers and four sisters grew up in a rented, 2.5-bedroom house in the tiny village of Taff’s Well, with their father unemployed for 6 years before war broke out. Playing with the eldest boys for Cardiff were their Taff’s Well uncle, Roy Roberts MM, a war hero, and their cousin Bill Tamplin, another Cardiff and Wales captain. The book uncovers some heroic characters and games from the past ‘If eight brothers played for the best team in the world in any major nation, they would not be forgotten. Thankfully, this well-researched book does them justice.’