By PAUL REES

ALFIE Barbeary endured a nightmare 2021 when most of his time was spent recovering from injury, but he was in dreamland last week when he was named in the England squad just seven matches into his comeback.
It is only 18 months since the 21-year old back rower made his Premiership debut for Wasps. Named on the bench as a hooker, he came on for No.8 Tom Willis in the home match against Worcester and scored a try. Less than three weeks later, he was celebrating a hattrick against Leicester having started the game on the blindside.
Wasps then saw him as a hooker who could play in ...