MARK SORENSON

THE FORMER NEWCASTLE, NORTHAMPTON AND BRISTOL LOCK TAKES US THROUGH HIS PET HATES FROM THE RUGBY WORLD AND BEYOND
1. Deep tissue massage
The whole reason that a deep tissue massage bugs me is because of the reaction of non-rugby playing friends when I used to tell them what I’d been up to in the day. They seem to think it is all hot rocks and whale music when the reality is a lot of pain and feeling very sore at the end of it. I’m not sure they’d have the same view if they had an elbow shoved into their hip flexor.

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