Saying thanks: Ben Jeffreys takes the trophy to see Pooler volunteer Pat Sheppherd

During the half-century since his Pontypool debut as a 17-year-old schoolboy, Graham Price could have been forgiven for thinking he had seen and heard it all. As the tighthead member of the Viet Gwent, he anchored a team forged in the image of the old iron town itself, one whose winning knack outstripped every other club in the British Isles before collapsing in a heap of rubble. Bruce Springsteen’s global 1985 hit could have been written about ‘Pooler’: Glory Days.
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