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Matthew Luddington talks to London Scottish flanker Jack Ingall about combining work and play in the Championship

ANECDOTES from rugby’s amateur era paint a vivid and entertaining picture of individuals who balanced the rigors of day jobs with the intensity of international matches and Rugby World Cups.
Take, for instance, French prop Pascal Ondarts, who seamlessly transitioned between his job as a folk singer and reaching the final of the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup. Or the spirit of Scottish scrum-half Gary Armstrong, whose weekdays were spent behind the wheel of a lorry, only to tran...

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