Ears and eyebrows marked out young Toby

Adam Hathaway talks to teammates about Toby Flood who retired this week

Toby Flood was a skinny teenager when he was elevated from the Newcastle Falcons academy to the senior team in 2004 but the older blokes in the first team know he had something.Seventeen years later, with, 60 England caps and 301 international points, a World Cup final, three Premiership wins at Leicester and a stint at Toulouse followed by a return to Kingston, he has proved it.Fly-half Flood announced his retirement from professional rugby last week to combine a business degree at Cambridge University with j...

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