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Dive-passing Jan was one of rugby’s great innovators

JAN WEBSTER was in the third year at Queen Mary’s Grammar School in Walsall when the headmaster fielded a call from Joe Mercer, then manager of Aston Villa asking for permission to sign his 14-yearold pupil.
“As the son of a West Bromwich Albion season-ticket holder, football was my game,’’ Webster told The Rugby Paper last year. “My pals and I used to slip through a hole in the fence at nearby Walsall Rugby Club and play on the field, but with a round ball not an oval one, until we were chased away.
“Had my headmaster not turned down the approach from Jo...

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