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Birthday boy Billy

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The Rugby Paper Team
5 August 2018

ONLY one British rugby player can claim to have scored more tries than Cristiano Ronaldo has goals, not that the man in question would dream of saying so. Billy Boston will be 84 tomorrow.
The town of Wigan won’t need any excuse to wish their favourite adopted son many happy returns. He scored the vast majority of his 571 tries for what’s now known as the Warriors, a number which outstrips Ronaldo’s who in turn has eclipsed the Union try record of 479 held by Bristol wing Alan Morley.

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