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Bobby Windsor - The Iron Duke: The Life and Times of a Working-Class Rugby Hero

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The ball would be kicked to touch, you would be running across and somebody would hit you in the back of your head. The old hooker, revered the rugby world over as ‘The Duke’ for his fearless ferocity on the pitch and bonhomie off it, never intended to live to tell the tale.

He is, quite simply, an Welsh icon, as hard as nails, rough, tough, quite ready to go in with a fist or a boot if necessary, when the game was at it's very hardest, but a sensitive, feeling man of great depth as well. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce passionately kiss on the field after the Chiefs star leads his team to the Super Bowl with the couple taking center stage for the celebrations - after she told cameras to 'go away' in the game! Luckily, they phoned the caravan site in Tenby and spoke to the woman who owned the caravan next to ours.In a wide-ranging chat, Windsor talks about the best and worst days of his career, that remarkable ‘74 Lions trip, his greatest captain, the dirtiest players he came up against and what he thinks about the modern-day game. He took some real stick from the opposition during games, but he was a gutsy man, a real hard player and a great player too. On what it was like to be selected by the Lions for the first time, Windsor said: “I was the only player to be picked from Monmouthshire so I had plenty of pats on the back from all the boys in and around the valleys.

This is a MUST read for any rugby player or fan of Bobby Windsor's era and, indeed, present day rugby players and fans who wonder what the game was like in its amateur days with only one referee and two "touch judges" . Peter Jackson, a sports journalist since he left school in 1960, retired in 2009 as rugby correspondent of the Daily Mail after 35 years. Wolves fan who brazenly chanted 'f*** off West Brom' after sneaking into the home section before FA Cup. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues.There were some crazy times off the field on that tour, but we trained like dogs and took the rugby really seriously. Gloucester head coach George Skivington was happy to end a “painful” run of nine Premiership defeats with their bonus-point 32-20 win over Sale. Bobby Windsor - The Iron Duke" is the no-holds-barred, warts-and-all story of a working-class Welsh folk hero who rose from humble beginnings to become a permanent member of the greatest Lions team in the history of rugby union. FIFA's The Best awards row: Multiple voters 'made mistakes' with their votes - in a system that saw Lionel. You’re going in straight away because you’ve got one of the most aggressive forms of prostate cancer and we’re worried about it.

Windsor played 14 matches on that Tour, including the first Test, and scored his only Lions try in the match against New Zealand Juniors. Aston Villa star Alisha Lehmann strikes a pose in glittery dress as she shares her 25th birthday party snaps. It was a tour which placed Windsor as one of the best in his position, with his technical ability and dynamism in the loose the key features of his game. A friend who does my life insurance policy rang to make plans for a routine medical and they found a speck of blood in my water.Robert William Windsor was born in Newport, Monmouthshire on the 31st January 1948, known as Bobby and nicknamed 'The Duke', is a former welsh rugby Union international rugby player. Having played at Brynglas and Cross Keys his job as a steelworker soon developed him into a strong and muscular player. My children helped pull me out of the depression and said I should go to Spain for a break in 2009 – and I never came back. Between 1973 and 1979, he was capped 28 times by Wales and he even scored a try on his debut for the team.

JURGEN KLOPP'S TOP FIVE FUNNIEST MOMENTS: Pulling a hamstring celebrating at Anfield and rapping after winning the Champions League! The trio played together for Wales 19 times and also for the Lions in Fiji on 16 August 1977 (the day that Elvis died). I was trampled with my six-year-old son in violent chaos at West Brom vs Wolves and was forced to enter the.I think the fact so many of the players in my day worked in heavy industry had a lot to do with the hardness of the game. Mr Windsor, originally from Newport, rebuilt his life on the Spanish island after battling prostate cancer, falling into a “deep black hole of depression” and going through a divorce. Over the next five-and-a-half years, he was to earn 28 successive Welsh caps and become a double Lion and double Grand Slammer.

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