Barry Williams is an English-born former professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

footballer who played in the 1990s. He played at representative level for

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and

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, and at club level for

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(two spells), and

Workington Town Workington Town R.L.F.C. is a semi-professional rugby league club playing in Workington in west Cumbria. Their stadium is Derwent Park, which they share with Workington Comets, a speedway team. They became Rugby League Champions in 1951 and ...

(two spells), as a .

Background

Barry Williams was born in Great Broughton,

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, England.

Club career

A wonderfully talented ball-playing forward, Williams played a prominent role as Carlisle beat Castleford in the 1995–96 Regal Trophy match. A season earlier, he had helped Workington Town finish ninth in the old first division. In 1997 he turned down a move to

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in order to have another spell at Workington Town.

International honours

Barry Williams won

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s for

while at 1991…1994 4-caps 1-try 4-points.

References

External links

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