A powerful front row forward, Richardson came on as a replacement to make his Wales debut when Graham Price suffered a broken jaw due to a punch against Australia in the second Test of 1978 at Sydney.
The following year he and Price were the props as Wales hammered England 27-3 in Cardiff.
From Treherbert Secondary Modern School he played senior rugby at Tondu, then Wales ‘B’ and Aberavon, for whom his two sons later appeared as props. It continued the impressive Richardson family legacy at the Port Talbot club.
Richardson also represented one of world rugby’s most famous sides – the Barbarians.
He became team manager at Aberavon for the 1987-88 season and coached at Bridgend, Pyle and Wick, the latter being the village in which he lived in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Incredibly, he toured South Africa with a Surrey County side in 1979 and played for West Wales against New Zealand in 1978.
