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Visionary Francis gets recognition at long last

OF all the players ostracised by the WRU for ‘going north,’ a powerful case can be made to show that nobody suffered more than Roy Francis. Born in Cardiff and brought up in Brynmawr, his long career in League began as a teenager with Wigan in 1937.
Like those who had turned professional before him and afterwards, Francis found the doors of Union clubhouses all over South Wales slammed shut in his face. That insult proved to be trivial compared to his scandalous omission from Great Britain’s first post-war tour, to Australia.
Francis fell foul of the country’s &lsquo...

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