Career
A Wales national representative stand-off half back, he played his club rugby for Widnes, Swinton, Runcorn Highfield and Springfield Borough. Born in Wales to a Welsh mother and a Sierra Leonean father, Wilson played rugby union for Cardiff Reconstruction Finance Corporation as a fly-half before moving north to play professionally in rugby league. Wilson once scored five drop goals in a match for Swinton.
Wilson is the father of retired Manchester United football player and former Welsh international Ryan Giggs, who was christened Ryan Joseph Wilson but as a teenager changed his surname to that of his mother.
Giggs is said to have inherited his balance and athleticism from his father.
