Old boy: Underwood

ISN’T it great to see Barnard Castle back in the news! Actually there is a long, proud tradition of people winging it and trying to hoodwink the opposition at that glorious market town in Teesdale that predates its new-found status of being Britain’s ophthalmic testing centre.
It was Barnard Castle School who gave us Rory Underwood, England’s record try-scorer out on the wing and he was followed a few years later by his younger brother Tony, another who ripped it up on the wing for England and the Lions. Meanwhile, the hugely underrated Scotland wing ...