GEORGES-Pompidou Mendy? He was born to be a centre. Where else would he play with a name like that?
Mendy may not be the talk of every rugby town on the planet right now, but he is certainly the talk of Nairobi.
And if the cards fall a certain way, he may soon set them chattering in the great sporting cities of France, from Toulouse and Marseille to Lyon and St Etienne.
Mendy plays for Senegal and scored the winning try in a Rugby Africa Cup match against Kenya last weekend –a proper turn-up for the books that earned his nation a place in the tournament’s knock-out phase and a shot at 2023...