MY LIFE IN RUGBY
THE BRISTOL BEARS RECRUITMENT MANAGER AND FORMER NORTHAMPTON FLY-HALF AND SAINTS AND BEDFORD COACH
PAUL LARKIN

Saints life: Paul Larkin, left, playing for Northampton

I’M an east London boy, originally, so it was football on Hackney Marshes for me on a weekend rather than rugby. That changed, though, when I came back from living in Nigeria and was sent to Bankcroft’s School. From then on, it became a lifetime obsession.
After attending St Luke’s College in Exeter, I joined Wasps in 1980, where Nigel Melville was my half-back partner. It was a tea...