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Ashes cameo put Wales cap Rees in a class of his own

PETER JACKSON

ALAN Rees won his Wales cap during the frozen winter of 1962-63. By then the Maesteg fly-half had been a professional sportsman for seven years, contracted to Glamorgan CCC from the age of 18.
None of that put him in jeopardy of falling foul of the amateur regulations. They didn’t apply just as they didn’t apply a decade later when England picked a full-back who spent his summers batting for Nottinghamshire, Dusty Hare.
The way the Establishment saw it, that was fine. Neither had committed the cardinal sin of being paid to play Rugby League, founded on the n...

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