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Dusty and Sully: Pair who lit up the game

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

They came into the world at different places in different times, two boys who grew up in different circumstances to play different sports and reach the same monumental goal. One arrived before the First World War, the other not long after the Second.
Jim Sullivan grew up in a crowded corner of South Cardiff to the sound and smell of the East Moors Steelworks in Splott, the youngest of eight children born to an Irishman who left Co. Kerry to find work as a blast furnace barrowman.
Almost exactly 50 years later, William Henry Hare learnt to kick the s...

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