How beasting from Robson on road to O’Connell put Academic life

BRENDAN GALLAGHER sits down with ex-Quins ace George Robson ahead of his Varsity challenge

NEVER underestimate George Robson, on or off the field. Of all the hardnosed, cussed, stalwart Premiership locks over the last decade he is probably the last one you would have envisaged finishing his playing days at Oxford University while studying for an Executive MBA at the prestigious Said Business School.
Until five years ago Robson had no academic pretensions whatsoever. In his late teens University had passed him by, choosing to plunge headlong into professional rugby after attending Bromsgrove...

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