Nick Cain

Nick Cain is a leading authority on the game after 42 years as a roving correspondent who has covered rugby union on every continent on the planet, apart from Antarctica - and also played in most of them as a have-boots-will-travel flanker.

During a journalistic career which has spanned the amateur and professional eras, he has covered all 10 World Cups, as well as eight of the last nine Lions tours.

He has been the chief correspondent of The Rugby Paper since its first edition in 2008, and was previously a columnist and reporter for The Sunday Times for 15 years.

Prior to that he was editor of Rugby World for nine years, having first cut his teeth in sports journalism by covering the 1981 England tour of Argentina for the Buenos Aires Herald.

Nick has written a number of books, including the 1997 "Lions Diary" with Jeremy Guscott, chronicling the centre's series-clinching role against South Africa.

He is also co-author of "Behind The Lions" and "Behind The Rose", two treasure trove histories as told by the Lions and England players who wore those famous jerseys on the international stage.