Neil Budworth (born 10 March 1982) is a former
Wales
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international
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 11 ...
footballer
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who finished his career playing for the
Mackay Cutters
The Mackay Cutters are a semi-professional rugby league football club based in Mackay, Queensland. They compete in Queensland's top rugby league competition, the Queensland Cup. The club was admitted to the Queensland Cup in 2007, alongside th ...
.
Background
Budworth was born in
Higher End
Higher End or Billinge Higher End is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.
Governance
Billinge was a civil parish lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire on 2 February 1837 it was divided ...
,
Wigan
Wigan ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, to the south-east, and Liverpool, to the south-west. Bolton lies to the north-east and Warrington t ...
,
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tam ...
, England.
Career
He previously played for the
London Broncos/
Harlequins RL
The London Broncos are a professional rugby league club in London, England.
The club competes in the RFL Championship. It was a member of Super League from its inaugural season in 1996 until the end of the 2014 season, when they were relegat ...
in the
Super League competition and was one of their longest serving players. He also played for the
Crusaders RL in National League One and the Super League as a .
References
External links
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Mackay Cutters profile
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1982 births
Living people
Crusaders Rugby League players
English rugby league players
English people of Welsh descent
London Broncos players
Mackay Cutters players
People from Higher End
Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
Rugby league hookers
Rugby league players from Wigan
Wales national rugby league team players
Welsh rugby league players