Thirty six years on since Halifax’s famous Challenge Cup final win over St Helens, Wilf George still gets stopped in the street to talk about it.
And now he’s hoping the current Fax squad become forever recognisable when they take on the World Club champions in Friday’s sixth round tie. Winger George was a Wembley try-scorer when the West Yorkshire club stunned Saints 19-18 in the 1987 decider. It was their first Cup victory since the start of World War II and they haven’t lifted the trophy since.
But the Championship part-timers are looking to cause another upset against their star-studded rivals. George, 63, said: “I live in Halifax. And it is 36 years ago. But even just yesterday I was talking to a guy who was walking his dog and he realised who I was. He was over the moon to meet me.
