The former England, Leicester & Nuneaton prop talks about his life in the game

As I write this, a group of 50 of us are a day into the latest Walk4Matt event, covering the 100 miles of the Warwickshire Ring Canal network. The route passes Nuneaton, Atherstone, Birmingham, Warwick and Leamington, and we’re collecting donations for The Matt Hampson Foundation along the way. Matt, as I am sure a lot of you are aware, was paralysed from the neck down after an accident during an England U21 training session in 2005 and breathes via a ventilator.
But rather than feel sorry for himself, Matt ...