HONOURS: 351 tries in 48 test matches, appeared at Wembley with Wigan and St Helens, record sequence of appearances for Great Britain, scored a hat-trick four times for GB

OTHER: Michael was new to the game when he joined Shaw Cross but he took to the game like a duck to water. He trained hard, he was usually the first to arrive for training, and the last to leave, and it was soon evident that this 10 stone lad would be a "star" in the making. He revelled in the keen atmosphere of Test football; the greater the occasion the better he performed. In 1957 he signed for a then record fee for Huddersfield but within hours Wigan swooped to sign him. When talking to Dougie Hird recently he was such an admirer and was adamant that he had never seen a player with as much speed as Mick.