THE FORMER ENGLAND XV, BATH, LONDON IRISH, NEWCASTLE AND GLOUCESTER SECOND ROW

MY LIFE IN RUGBY
JAMES HUDSON

Camel charge: James Hudson on the attack for London Irish against Leicester in the 2009 Premiership final
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WHEN I signed my first professional contract at Bath, the coach Jon Callard asked me what I wanted to do after rugby, which I thought was a little unusual because I’d not even started my rugby career.
I told him a nutritionist in sport, to which he replied, ‘that’s not really a job, it doesn’t exist’. I said I thought it woul...