AND another one. This column recently became slightly obsessed with great British comedians who, unknown to the general public and indeed even hard-core sports fans, had been star schoolboy rugby players.
We unearthed Monty Python legend Terry Jones – skipper at RGS Guildford before he went to Oxford – and Mel Smith who was captain at Latymer Upper before he too went to Oxford.
Then, unexpectedly, we stumbled upon Bill Oddie, the captain of St Edward’s, Birmingham, who was considered a massive fly-half prospect when he went to Cambridge University and Pembroke Co...