Wigan Album
Bill Boston
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Photo: Keith
Item #: 28709
Huddersfield's Ray Haywood has made a break and Billy is behind him with Bill Sayer further back. Haywood kicks ahead and the second photo shows that Billy beat him to the grounding, however Wigan surprisingly lost this match by 11 points to 13 despite having beaten Huddersfield home and away that season, the last match by 41 points to 3 less than a month earlier at Central Park. In fact Wigan seemed in great form going into this contest, in their last 6 league matches they beat Warrington, St Helens and Salford, both home and away, by comfortable margins.
Was at the match as a seventeen year old
I played soccer on that Saturday afternoon and then went straight to the match. I think the game started about 6 pm
Hi there Jack i too was at that match if you care to look back of linesman toward the kop i was hanging on to the red railings going up the side, my dad had got me thro "gate" just look at the other corner of the kop PACKED oh my those were v happy days . Can i float this by you Jack i had an idea Wigan were going to lose that day! WHY you may ask , Well it was a know fact back then and that was if Wigan did not take to the pitch first at the entry start to the tune of "" ENTRY OF THE GLADIATORS"" The concensus was that "" the money was not on the table"" this did happen how do i know one of the forwards was my cousin that's how i know it's true ,but still fantastic days that will be with me till the end!!!!
I remember my father coming back from this match he was over the moon. Huddersfield were not expected to win. He always put it down to the fact that they won the first nine scrums and they tackled themselves to the ground.