{"id":480582,"date":"2026-03-17T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480582\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:42:08","slug":"civic-event-for-wigan-warriors-rugby-league-star-billy-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480582\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic event for Wigan Warriors rugby league star Billy Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Chris Brookes, chairman of Wigan Warriors, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_manchester\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Manchester<\/a>: &#8220;There are now not many people who will remember seeing him play. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No-one, though, will ever forget the contribution he made to the sport of rugby league.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leader of Wigan Council, David Molyneux, who also attended the event said Sir Billy is a &#8220;legend of rugby league&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The first knight of the sport. He made almost 500 appearances for Wigan in the 1950s and 1960s and scored tries at the rate of one a game &#8211; more than 570 by the end of his career.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prof Chris Brookes, chairman of Wigan Warriors, told BBC Radio Manchester: &#8220;There are now not many people who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480582","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=480582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}