Windsor – or ‘The Duke’ as his team-mates came to know him – began his rugby career as a fly-half, but it was at hooker where the steelworker would rise to the top of the game. As soon as Gareth Edwards passed the ball out from the scrum, they would just stand up and boot you in the clock!

Ad Feature Blackburn Rovers are favourites to win their FA Cup tie at home against Wrexham tonight - with the League. Bobby Windsor gained 28 caps for Wales between 1973 and 1979 and went on two British Isles' tours to South Africa in 1974 and New Zealand and Fiji in 1977, making a total of 26 appearances, including five tests.

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His rugby career as the best hooker in the British Isles during the second golden era of Welsh rugby in the 1970s is a turbulent tale of blood and thunder on the pitch.

Windsor will kick every ball and shove in every scrum for Wales against the All Blacks on Saturday but fears it will be the same old story, with one subtle difference. As we gaze upon this image today, we can't help but feel inspired by Bobby Windsor's legacy – a true icon whose dedication continues to inspire generations of aspiring rugby players worldwide.

The best laugh of all was one night when we had been out on the beer and there were some girls in the hotel when we got back and we ended up stripped off doing naked scrummaging down in the hotel foyer. He now fishes, plays golf and has offered to pay for a 60-something woman to visit, so he can take her for meals and get to know her. The Iron Duke is the no-holds-barred, warts-and-all story of a working-class Welsh folk hero who rose from humble beginnings to become a permanent member of the greatest Lions team in the history of rugby union. They rang the wife, told her what was happening and said, “We want you to come down here straight away because your husband’s not in a very good way at all”.Bobby Windsor – The Iron Duke is the no-holds-barred, warts-and-all story of a working-class Welsh folk hero who rose from humble beginnings to become a permanent member of the greatest Lions team in the history of rugby union.