HAD Wales done a genealogy check on Jake Polledri, the results would have entitled them to offer one of the English Premiership’s best young back row forward an alternative route into the Six Nations.
Italy having beaten them to the punch, Polledri could well have been the first to represent a country where his grandfather had been interned at a camp in South Wales during the Second World War.
Despite reports to the contrary, the late John Polledri was born in Abertillery. His wife came from Sora, a town north of Rome famous for its cardinals and generals.
“My dad and his parent...