{"id":77198,"date":"2014-11-30T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T11:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=77198"},"modified":"2014-11-30T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T11:37:27","slug":"tony-ward-kyle-irish-rugby-pele-football-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/tony-ward-kyle-irish-rugby-pele-football-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Ward: &#8216;Kyle is to Irish rugby what Pele is to football in Brazil&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Kyle goes on one of his many trademark runs in an Ireland shirt<\/p>\n<p>His first cap came in January 1947 on a team that included Karl Mullen, JC Daly, Barney Mullan and Bill McKay to name but a few in at the start of a golden generation and golden period for Irish rugby.<\/p>\n<p>I never got to see John Wilson Kyle play but for anyone remotely connected with rugby on this island, the name Jackie Kyle stands apart.<\/p>\n<p>He won 46 caps for his country from 1947-58, a record for any out-half that stood for another 34 years until overtaken by England&#8217;s Rob Andrew in 1992. He united rival communities as seamlessly and as effectively as he ripped opposition defences apart. Jack Kyle was special &#8211; very, very special.<\/p>\n<p>Although preceded by Eugene Davy, it&#8217;s generally recognised that Kyle lit the out-half flame that has burned for so many Irish out-halves and continues to this day through Johnny Sexton to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Apart<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. see more at :- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/sport\/rugby\/other-rugby\/tony-ward-kyle-is-to-irish-rugby-what-pele-is-to-football-in-brazil-30783909.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/sport\/rugby\/other-rugby\/tony-ward-kyle-is-to-irish-rugby-what-pele-is-to-football-in-brazil-30783909.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Kyle goes on one of his many trademark runs in an Ireland shirt His first cap came in January 1947 on a team that included Karl Mullen, JC Daly, Barney Mullan and Bill McKay to name but a few in at the start of a golden generation and golden period for Irish rugby. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7350,6037,5871,5967,5834,5688,15547,3959,5745,8756,7750,5835],"class_list":["post-77198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-brazil","tag-football","tag-in","tag-irish","tag-is","tag-kyle","tag-pele","tag-rugby","tag-to","tag-tony","tag-ward","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77200,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77198\/revisions\/77200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}