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Peter Jackson: Sir Billy Boston, the man Cardiff ignored

The Welsh Rugby Union has paid due homage to Sir Billy Boston, acclaiming the sailor’s son they somehow managed to lose more than 70 years ago as ‘a trailblazer’.
The torrent of tributes from within the Union fold expressed heart-felt ‘delight’ at his arrival as the oldest sporting knight of the realm, two years into the tenth decade of his life. It was as if they had come to claim him as one of their own.
The man himself would have appreciated that, a sense that he belonged to the whole of Wales, not just the square mile or two of old Tiger Bay around his childhood home in Angelina Stree...

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