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Mantle holds his place alongside St Helens’ mightiest

AS a teenaged all-rounder of prodigious ability growing up in the Fifties, John Mantle excelled as a track-and-field athlete, captained the school cricket team and represented Wales at both rugby and football.
Wolverhampton Wanderers, then the most powerful team in England, were impressed enough to give him an extended trial and his career may have taken a different course but for the honesty of the club’s manager, the legendary Stan Cullis.
“I played six trial games for Wolves and I then had a chat with Mr Cullis’’, Mantle recalled some years ago. “He said he ...

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