The statue features Billy Boston, Clive Sullivan and Gus Risman who left amateur rugby union in Wales to become legends for professional rugby league clubs in England.<\/p>\n
In the ceremony on Friday Sir Billy had his name updated on the plaque to be formally recognised as Sir William John Boston KBE.<\/p>\n
Boston’s son Stephen, who attended the event, described it as a “very special day”.<\/p>\n
“It means a lot more to my dad coming from Tiger Bay and being honoured in Tiger Bay, it’s always going to be a little bit more special for him,” he said.<\/p>\n
Stephen said his dad has had “really fond memories” of growing up in Cardiff.<\/p>\n
“When we come down, all he talks about is Tiger Bay,” he added.<\/p>\n
Stephen said it had a “special place” in his heart, despite Sir Billy earning acclaim in Wigan for his rugby league exploits.<\/p>\n
“He’s lived in Wigan longer than he’s lived here, and he’s been adopted as a Wiganer [someone from Wigan], but in his heart he’s still a Tiger Bay boy and that will never change.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The statue features Billy Boston, Clive Sullivan and Gus Risman who left amateur rugby union in Wales to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-401053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115153995242934979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}