THE 100th anniversary of Edgar Mobbs’ death at the Third Battle off Ypres falls tomorrow and the town of Northampton will be honouring one of their favourite sonswho captained the Saints for seven years between 1906 and 1913, scoring 177 tries.
The character of Mobbs has always rather intrigued me. Sometimes painted as the archetypal establishment figure and rugby diehard, he was in fact a wheeler-dealer car salesman who reacted to being told he was too old to join up by addressing the crowd at Franklin’s Gardens and calling for volunteers to form their own sporting Regiment &nd...