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Greats: Wigan Rugby League Club
100 Greats: Wigan RLFC is near enough to being a who's who of the most famous names ever to play rugby league. On looking at the names, the book almost sells itself there and then: Eric Ashton, Dean Bell, Billy Boston, Shaun Edwards, Joe Egan, Andy Farrell, Ken Gee, Ellery Hanley, Jimmy Leytham and the great Jim Sullivan. And that is just the start. Since the first New Zealanders arrived in England in 1907 with Albert Baskerville, Wigan have been trawling the globe for the best League and Union players. As the publicity sheet says: "Kiwis such as the great Cec Mountford, the first overseas player to win the coveted Lance Todd Trophy, Australians like magical Queensland scrum-half Hector Gee, South Africans of the calibre of flying winger Attie van Heerden, who ran behind a police horse in scoring a try during the 1924 Challenge Cup final, and Scottish stalwarts like the talented George Fairbairn, and, of course, the many men from the valleys of South Wales; Boston, Sullivan, Johnny Ring, Johnny Thomas - the list is huge." 100 Greats: Wigan RLFC profiles the club's most famous players, each having a photograph, full biography and statistics. Compiled by rugby league historian Graham Morris, and with a foreword by Eric Ashton MBE, a former, player, captain and coach of the club, this book is mandatory for the collection of any Wigan supporter. It is also an interesting read for fans who have a wider interest in the best rugby league players of the 20th Century. Available from: Tempus Publishing 100
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While
a few (actually, many) may be gloating at Wigan's current position on
the Super League ladder, nothing can take away the club's glittering
array of superstars that have worn the cherry-and-white over the past
century.