MY LIFEIN RUGBY

PHIL DE GLANVILLE
THE FORMER ENGLAND & BATH CAPTAIN AND CENTRE

Proud days: England captain Phil de Glanville in action against New Zealand in the 1999 World Cup
PICTURE: Getty Images

IMUST admit I was just as unprepared for the madness surrounding the England captaincy as Bath had been a few months earlier in 1996 when about to face Wigan in the first leg of the Cross-Code Challenge.
Will Carling had been getting Press attention similar to Dominic Cummings at the time, with people camped on his doorstep, and seeing as I was succeeding him as England captain, it was bi...