NICK CAIN TALKS TO PHIL VICKERY ABOUT PROPS, ENGLAND AND CAPTAINCY

Playing with intesity: Phil Vickery takes on Wales’ Martyn Williams during the Six Nations match in 2008
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Resilient: Danny Cipriani

PHIL Vickery has an intensity and passion for Rugby Union that burns as brightly now as it did when he captained England. You hear the word ‘passion’ distorted and devalued these days by its cheap, lazy over-use in every marketing strap line from drain clearance to deodorant, but Vickery’s version runs deep in his veins.
It was his hallmark th...