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FORMER ENGLAND, NEWCASTLE AND SARACENS LOCK AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR AT GALLAGHER

MY LIFEIN RUGBY
HUGH VYVYAN

Signing off in style: Captain Hugh Vyvyan celebrates Newcastle’s victory over Sale in the 2004 Powergen Cup Final
PICTURE: Getty Images

SUFFERING a burst appendix while on a pre-season tour of France and spending a week in hospital wasn’t exactly how I hoped my career as a professional rugby player with the Falcons would begin.
I’d had a stomach ache for a while, but was too afraid to say anything to the physio or doctor for fear of everyone thinking th...

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