MY LIFEIN RUGBY

MARK MAPLETOFT THE FORMER ENGLAND, GLOUCESTER, SARACENS, HARLEQUINS AND LONDON IRISH FLY-HALF/FULL-BACK AND CURRENT RFU PATHWAY COACH IRONICALLY, even though I grew up in the town of Rugby, football was my sport and I was good enough to be offered a YTS contract by my local club, Coventry City, which I turned down to focus on my A Levels. It was only through playing the sport at Lawrence Sherriff School that rugby came onto my radar, initially as a scrum-half. Even my first-ever game of senior rugby, for Rugby Lions 3rds away at Evesham, was overshadowed by footb...