MY LIFE IN RUGBY
THE FORMER SOUTH AFRICA, LIONS AND LEEDS TYKES CENTRE
JAPIE MULDER

My uncle, Boet Muller, was a Springbok on the 1965 tour to New Zealand, and my father and three brothers all played provincial rugby, so I grew up in a rugby family and was never far from a rugby field. But it never dawned on me that I might actually become a Springbok too, until the call came in 1994 telling me to pack my bags and get myself down to Cape Town to fly out to New Zealand because Pieter Muller was injured.
I was lucky that I played in a strong university side at the University of...