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Press box pros were Wales’ other stars

WHENWales shared the Five Nations title in 1964, they had an unbeaten team on the field and another one off it.
The professionals, those dyed-in-the-ink newspapermen gave the old Arms Park Press box a forbidding appearance. The dramatis personae were as entertaining a cast as any:
Tom Lyons (Daily Mirror). Canny Yorkshire raconteur so highly regarded by Matt Busby that whenever Man Utd were in town the manager would invite him to join ‘The Babes’ for lunch. Dennis Busher (Daily Herald). Capt Mainwaring lookalike minus the pomposity.
Lloyd Lewis (News of the World). Rather than h...

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