‘Rugby gave me hope, away from life in a cell’

My Life in Rugby with Simon Bunting: The former Yorkshire, Rotherham and Doncaster prop talks about his life in the game

 

To achieve what I achieved, playing 234 times for my hometown club Rotherham, travelling around Europe with them, and playing against some of the best players in the world, is something I am really proud of especially as I was written off as a kid. I was once told by a teacher that I would never amount to anything but I was pleased to bump into him not so long ago and hear him admit he was wrong. It was funny seeing his Nissan Micra next to my top-of-the-range Mercedes...

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