‘Back then, there were a lot of quality fly-halves’

My Life in Rugby with Tony Clement: The former Wales and Swansea back talks about his life in the game

Taking into account my time with Swansea, Wales and two tours as a British & Irish Lion, I played in every position in the backline except for scrum-half. I drew the line at that, 9s are a different breed! For the first six of my 14 consecutive seasons at Swansea I was an out-and-out 10 and I loved playing there. But when Wales gave me my first start against England at the start of the 1988 Five Nations – after a twotry debut off the bench against USA the previous November – it was a...

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