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My Life in Rugby with Mark Taylor - The former Wales, Ospreys, Sale, Swansea & Pontypool centre and now WRU performance pathway coordinator talks about his life in the game

IAM Blaenavon born and bred, about six miles up the Valley from Pontypool. My dad, Ivor, played for the club after he joined from Newport in 1971 before going on to be player-coach and my older brother Paul also played for them so there was only ever going to be one club for me. I’d be down there every Saturday as a ball boy and, the moment I was old enough, I went straight to Pontypool Youth and came through the s...

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