Threshfield legend:John Spencer PICTURE: John Ashton @ickledot

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JON NEWCOMBE SPEAKS WITH A NUMBER OF WELL-KNOWN RUGBY FIGURES ABOUT THE CLUB THEY CALL THEIR OWN. THIS WEEK IT’S THE TURN OF CURRENT BARBARIANS PRESIDENT, JOHN SPENCER, THE FORMER ENGLAND AND LIONS CENTRE
UNLIKE many of his team-mates, John Spencer didn’t farm the local land but his connections to Wharfedale Rugby Union Football Club are just as deep-rooted.
Spencer, a lawyer by profession, is the third generation of his family to be brought up and live in the sister villages of Grassington and ...