High time Cardiff put up a statue for Billy

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PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

Exceptional: Billy Boston on the rampage for Wigan. Inset, above, with Cardiff & District XV in 1951. Inset below, with Wales and France players in 1952 after his one youth international, centre back row

An embryonic superstar lines up with different teams in the months before Wales contrived to lose him at the age of 18. This is as generations of admirers will never have seen him before, a teenage sensation posing alongside team-mates and opponents alike in photographs of some historical significance.
Each is a one-off, marking what ough...

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