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    JPR Williams: Fearless flier redefined full-back role and gave rugby peerless moments

    by Nick Purewal Jan 09, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: Getty Images

    Wales great JPR Williams will go down as perhaps rugby’s finest full-back — and yet his storied sporting career might easily never have happened.

    The sideburned-sidestepper who first felled the All Blacks and then the Springboks on successive Lions tours has died, aged 74.

    Tributes have poured in from across the globe at the passing of the peerless No15, who just so happened to have a day job

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