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COLIN ALLAN RECALLS WHEN THE LEGENDARY BILLY WRIGHT EARNED HIS 100TH CAP FOR ENGLAND...

Fitting finale: Billy Wright is chaired off after earning his 100th cap for England against Scotland in 1959CONGRATULATIONS, Billy Wright. So says the Premier (Harold Macmillan) and so say all of us, including his wife, Joy – only six days a mother.”This is how the cheery Pathe narrator introduced his cinema audiences to a report on the England v Scotland game of April 4, 1959.Perhaps it was fitting that the Wolverhampton Wanderers and England centre-half gained his century of inter...

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