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Joe Lydon (born 26 November 1963), is an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and '90s. A Great Britain international representative , and /, he also coached the England national side at rugby union. ==Playing career== Lydon played first schoolboy curtain-raiser to Challenge Cup final at Wembley in 1975. He signed professional forms with Widnes from Wigan St Patrick's, making his début in a 9–10 defeat by Leigh in 1982. In 1983 he made the first of three appearances for the Great Britain Under-24 team against France in January and a month later makes his full Great Britain début, scoring a try and three goals in 20–5 win over France in Carcassonne. In 1984 he won the Lance Todd Trophy as man of the match in Widnes' Wembley win over hometown Wigan, famously scoring two 75-yard interception tries, as well as Man of Steel, Division One Player and Young Player of the Year awards. In 1986, when he joined Wigan, Lydon became rugby league's first £100,000 transfer (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £327,600 in 2013), making his début in a 44–6 win over Hull. During the 1987–88 Rugby Football League season, he played in the centres for defending champions Wigan in their 1987 World Club Challenge victory against the visiting Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. Lydon was selected to go on the 1988 Great Britain Lions tour. Lydon was selected to go on the 1992 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand and collected the last of his 30 GB caps as a substitute in 16–10 defeat by Australia in Brisbane. He would go on to make one further international appearance, coming on as a replacement for Ireland in their first ever international match, a 24–22 victory against USA in Washington DC in 1995. In 1994 he played the last of 262 games for Wigan as substitute in 30–6 home win over Featherstone. During his career Lydon spent two English off-seasons playing in Australia for Sydney's Eastern Suburbs club. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joe Lydon (rugby)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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