Was around before I was born but have just been watching some clips of this fella on t'internet, looked a class act. Any idea on what he's doing nowadays?

He was my first Wigan hero, The Saldanha Tiger.

3 tries against the great John Atkinson at Leeds in 1977 I think....Legend my friend

I use to see him at the bus stop in the mornings on Darlington st but not any more.

One can only dream of how good Vigo would have been under a coach like Graham Lowe or John Monie. He was a top class athlete without even being fit. The mind boggles at how good he'd have been had he really worked at it.

He's probably in wetherspoons.

I was having a drink with him one night in the Clarence. Only went to the bar, turned round to see him dancing on the pool table with not a stitch on. Great lad and would have been a superstar today if he had kept away from the wrong crowd.

He held a post office up with a toy cap gun the drugs got hold of him good

What a feckin waste of a talent.

Why wasn't he deported after all the trouble he got in?

I know he's got kids who were born over here he had them with my mates auntie maybe thats got something to do with it?

Green Vigo.
I have seen it mentioned about the three trys agains Leeds,what made them special was the way he waltzed round the great John Holmes (Leeds supporters opinion), Wigan had a great scrum half by the way that day ,Jimmy Nulty.
Next, the comment he is proberbly in Weatherspoons.
Next, he was dancing on the table naked.
Next, in the Post Office with a toy gun.
Next,waste of talent.
Next,should of been deported.

All of the above proberbly true,but all opinions of a person have two sides.
This is my version why Green Vigo went off the rails.

In December 1971 I went to South Africa on a three year contract as a boilermaker and I was staying in a Union mad town South of Joberg ( Afrikaans dominated)
The blacks where treated like dogs with no rights at all.
I used to get an English speaking paper and even though all Union at least it wasn't a white only dominated paper.
After being there about six months the name Green Vigo kept coming up in this English speaking paper as being something special,these comments where shot down in flames by the Afrikaans press, the headlines said NO BLACK WOULD EVER GET NEAR THE SOUTH AFRICAN TEAM.
The way these people where treated you would never believe,I was given a "boy" to be my labourer who allways called me "Boss" and when I told him to call me by my first he said he could'nt dare.
I came home after 18 months because I was uneasy with what was going on,this was early 1973.
I told fellow Wigan supporters I knew about this black player who but for his colour would be classed as a great winger and because of his colour was treated like a dog.
Lo and behold a couple of months after getting home it was announced that Wigan had signed him. He made his debut in the Wigan 7s in August 1973.
What I am trying to get across was the tremendous change in his lifestyle that he had to get used to.
To go from being treated like a dog to treated like a celebratery was to much for him.
I met him after he had been here about 12 months and he would still slip into saying Boss when he spoke to me.

In his first game he ripped it up big style in the 7s, followed by a Locker Cup "friendly" against Warrington where that nice Mr Chisnall thought it would be a good introduction to England if he smashed all Vigo's teeth out. The stories after that are legendary, and probably all true, but as the previous poster said what do you expect if you put a lad in his position with a hard drinking bunch of rugby players.

Is this him or a fake? Seems a bit of a nonce to me, abusing one of my mates. https://twitter.com/#!/Green_Vigo

Is this him or a fake? Seems a bit of a nonce to me, abusing one of my mates. https://twitter.com/#!/Green_Vigo

While I wasn't present i've heard other accounts of South Africa at that period and can well believe way you saw may have severely impacted in the psychology of a player when brought to this country and put on a pedestal. People refer to the likes of Terry Newton (RIP) needing support after his career ended, people would do well to consider your perspective/argument before passing judgement.