Coaching great John Kear dies day after covering Challenge Cup final for BBC
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Led two sides to Challenge Cup glory in long career
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‘He was a true rugby league man through and through’
John Kear, the rugby league broadcaster and former Challenge Cup-winning coach, has died at the age of 71. The Rugby Football League announced that Kear died on Sunday on his return from covering Wigan’s Challenge Cup victory at Wembley for the BBC.
Kear led nine clubs in a coaching career lasting more than 700 matches, masterminding the shock Challenge Cup win for Sheffield Eagles in 1998 and then steering Hull FC to Challenge Cup glory in 2005.
المصدر: The Guardian — Media
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