Quote: Redscat "
It all boils down to the fact that your average semi-professional rugby league player was just an ordinary, working class, bloke next door with an ordinary working class job; usually in this area a miner, welder , mechanic or such like. The professional classes tended to lean towards the other oval ball game. Many ex-players tended to take up jobs in the licensing trade,pub landlords, pub managers and the like. Neil Fox had a string of bookies for a period.'"
I grew up on Ashleigh Avenue (directly opposite what became Harold's newsagents on Dewsbury Road) and it was my brother who first told me that Harold had taken over the shop and neither of us could quite believe that a former Trinity Superstar was now running a shop at the bottom of our street