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Former rugby league star Sandy Campbell is living rough on the Gold Coast as he battles throat cancer, it has been revealed.

Campbell was a rare breed as a flashy winger and pin-up boy for sports magazines in the 1980s - including appearing on the cover the now-defunct Rugby League Week emulating Michael Jackson from his BAD album.

The Bulldogs winger earned the nickname 'Dancing Sandy from Samarai' after the island and former administrative capital in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, where he hails from.

On the field, he dazzled crowds with his speed and turn of foot. Off it, he dazzled the ladies with his movie star looks and sense of style that was foreign to rugby league at the time.

Sadly, Dancin' Sandy is another former rugby league great who has fallen through the cracks - and now there is a push on to save him.

Campbell was discovered by News Corp living under a Coolangatta surf club on the beach, all of his worldy possessions stuffed into a shopping trolley.

That includes a chemotherapy infusion pump he needs to use around the clock to treat throat cancer.

He is estranged from his wife and twin daughters.  

The good looks have long vanished. The dreadlocks he grew after retirement are gone, so are many of his teeth, and face tattoos render him almost unrecognisable. He is just 56.

However, now that he has been discovered, Family of League - formerly Men of League - is moving in to help. 

'It's been sad - he was fine until a year or so ago when things fell apart,' former teammate Kurt Landers told Wide World of Sports.

'I am determined to help him out and so have plenty of other guys who played with and against him.

'I'm going up to the Gold Coast soon to check in on him and we are looking to set up a GoFundMe page to help him.

'Hopefully the fans who he gave a lot of joy to can

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