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":117244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-117243","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","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}