Re: A true Welsh super star
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TH63
Ah Lenny!
Ex soldier who fought on D-Day, legend 👍
Re: A true Welsh super star
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SLUDGE FACTORY
I took the piss out of him on the real radio sports phone in for supporting Leeds and Johnathan Davies for being a man united fan and he took it on the chin
Leighton James however got really wound up and couldn't see the hypocrisy of Welsh people cheering on the Welsh rugby side against England one Saturday and supporting English football teams the following weekend
As long as we beat the English and all that crap sung by Kelly Jones , a fecking Leeds fan
It went straight over Leighton's head
As for bishop a tremendous all round sportsman
I still have that recording somewhere :hehe:
Re: A true Welsh super star
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Nelsonca61
I still have that recording somewhere :hehe:
Well that's all very romantic Leighton but that doesn't answer the question !
Leighton......don't come that with me sonny !!!
He was leathered
Re: A true Welsh super star
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SLUDGE FACTORY
Well that's all very romantic Leighton but that doesn't answer the question !
Leighton......don't come that with me sonny !!!
He was leathered
I have some work to do for a few hours but will hunt this out later :hehe:
Re: A true Welsh super star
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Nelsonca61
I have some work to do for a few hours but will hunt this out later :hehe:
Time is a healer
I was slagging off Welsh rugby to get a rise out of Leighton James , the daft bugger !
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Re: A true Welsh super star
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Nelsonca61
I started and finished St Illtyds in the same class as Bish 5 years, wasn't in his circle of friends, Jeckyll and hide character, was frightened of no one at the school, except John Actie he had some great scraps usually with the older pupils, and I did witness the day that someone else in the class stood up to him, Bishop had just decked Doug Actie with a thumping left hook, and another lad whose name i'll not mention stood up for Doug, and fronted Bishop up, it was calmed down but it was a watershed moment at the school. In 2003 when i was doing a bit of door work saving for Euro 2004, I did some work for Bishop in town, a very dodgy evening for me and was the turning point for me to say , I don't need the cash that much and stopped doing door work. BAR Blue the place was called at the time, serious drug taking going down.
I played in the same Cardiff Schools side that won the DC Thomas Cup in 70/71 with Bishop, Doug Actie and John Actie. John Actie was a year younger than all of us and yet he was the biggest and easily the strongest in the team. Bishop was a bit special, even at that young age. His father was always there, urging him on from the touchline.
There wasn't really that much money in the game back then when he broke into the first class rugby scene ... "boot money" = enough to cover your expenses and your beer money.
Had Bishop been born in America, for example, he'd have probably cut it as a running back or quarterback and made a fortune (he would have developed bigger size with the American conditioning and facilities). There were no half measures with him, he threw everything into whatever sport he happened to be doing at the time.
Unfortunately for him, he was still involved at a time when rugby was still clinging on desperately to the amateur ways.
Is it an urban myth or did he really used to challenge the gypsies to bare-knuckle fights?
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I was told he challenged a well known lunatic from Tremorfa one night outside the troubadour club and the Tremorfa lad gave him a hiding.
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ian gibson
I was told he challenged a well known lunatic from Tremorfa one night outside the troubadour club and the Tremorfa lad gave him a hiding.
I'm sure there were many hidings dished out as his reputation preceded him, AL from Llanrumney always had the upper hand, I'm led to believe that Bishop in the early years kept his distance, in the later years were good friends.
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Sounds like a really nice bloke. :facepalm:
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Nelsonca61
I'm sure there were many hidings dished out as his reputation preceded him, AL from Llanrumney always had the upper hand, I'm led to believe that Bishop in the early years kept his distance, in the later years were good friends.
If this the AL i know he was a real handful but a great lad.He had a scrap with my mate hit shit out of each other then we all went out together in the night.:biggrin:
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There is no doubting Bishops sporting ability, and he should have got more caps at scrum half, and he was a hard bast*rd but I lost all respect for him when he battered a mate of mine in a boozer in town, but only after he’d been waiting in a dark room, and a few of his mates opened the door and pushed my mate into the room where Bishop just started laying into him.
If they’d have started face to face, my money would have been on my mate. He’d also picked a night when my mate was in there on his own.