The former England and Northampton prop talks about his life in the game

Knackering Fran Cotton’s knee in a training session thankfully wasn’t my only contribution to the England rugby team! That happened in my early 20s when the Bucks county side was invited down to Bisham Abbey to give England a practice run-out. I chopped Fran down in a tackle and he was out for a year and all the chat was about who’d done this to him!
Move forward a year and I was back at Bisham Abbey, but this time as a member of the England squad, not as cannon fodder. I remember being in the Elizabethan room and hea...