WILL SIMONDS

WASPS CENTRE
As a youngster growing up in Buckingham, all-rounder Will Simonds excelled at football, rugby, cricket and tennis. He might have ended up as a footballer had trials with Norwich City and MK Dons amounted to anything, but it was rugby that eventually held sway.
Simonds, whose earlier years were spent in Singapore before his family returned home to England when he was nine, became besotted with the daring deeds of All Blacks centre Ma’a Nonu whilst watching Southern Hemisphere rugby on TV – and from that point he was hooked.
“I used to love watchi...