The Independent - London, September 4th, 1994
TO THE generation that struggled through the Fifties, the former England football captain Billy Wright, who died yesterday at the age of 70, had his place in our gallery of icons, along with Elvis Presley's pelvis, Marilyn Monroe's wiggle, Bill Haley's kisscurl, and Marlon Brando lamenting that he "coulda been a contender". Billy Wright came from a past where they certainly did things differently, dramatically so in football. For a start, he was a one-club man: born in Ironbridge, Shropshire, he joined Wolverhampton Wanderers' ground staff as a boy, and it never crossed his mind that there wa...
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