MY LIFE IN RUGBY
CHRISTIAN SAVERIMUTTO

THE FORMER IRELAND, SALE & WATERLOO SCRUM-HALF
I WAS obsessed with rugby, I used to live, sleep and eat it and would literally go to bed with a rugby ball. Every waking hour that I could, I’d train, train and train. I used to watch how Nick Farr-Jones and Robert Jones would manage a game on old VHS videos, studying when they would kick, when they would pass and what angles they would run. I’m surprised they didn’t get worn out by the amount of times I paused and rewound them.
I was also fortunate that my brother, Alastair,...