I respect Boxer and I always have done. On the field he was a winner - he would do anything to win and sometimes he might bend the rules but so did everybody. He is a great lad and I can't speak too highly of him. We played against each other a few times when we were amateurs and I...

The record attendance for a County Championship match is more than 12,000, a figure reached several times in the late 1940s. But 30 years later the competition had become less important and, occasionally at least, certain players would not go out of their way to make themselves available, especially in the heartlands of game, where selectors had 14...

Kells Amateur Rugby League Club has been at the heart of the local community for more than 85 years. Wedding receptions are held in the lounge where birthdays are often celebrated, along with the occasional christening and it is here where the village's young men go to learn how to play rugby league and become better people. The clubhouse is...

PAUL CHARLTON - Full Back - Workington Town, Salford, Blackpool Borough, Cumberland, England and Great Britain

He would never hide in the threequarters, not for a moment - you might as well give him a knife and ask him to cut his throat. And his own forwards loved him for it. This admiration was not shared by opponents and it is easy to picture international forwards, a volcanic anger rising inside them, huddled together in a...

Workington Town would not have won the Lancashire Cup without Boxer Walker. He was voted the man-of-the-match, he topped the tackle count, he kicked two drop goals at vital moments and he had a hand in both tries. Yet Boxer shouldn't have played. He wouldn't have been allowed anywhere near a rugby field using medical protocol which is in place...