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I was wrong to retire after captaincy snub

DAVID COOKE
MY LIFEIN RUGBY
THE FORMER ENGLAND AND HARLEQUINS FLANKER

Pack leader: David Cooke, centre, in action during the Five Nations match against Ireland at Lansdowne Road in 1985

As is true ineveryday life,rugby is allabout takingyour opportuni-ties, howeverthey may comeabout.
I’d literally just scored a tryfor Harlequins as our home gameagainst the Army approachedhalf-time when the club chair-man, John Currie, ran onto thepitch at the Stoop and told thereferee to stop the game. He thenheaded towards me and said hehad Derek Morgan (an Englandselector) on the telephone want-i...

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