MY LIFE IN RUGBY
SAM BAKER

THE FORMER ENGLAND COUNTIES, STOURBRIDGE, CINDERFORD, COVENTRY, AMPTHILL AND LONDON SCOTTISH WINGER

Speed machine: Sam Baker on the attack for Ampthill
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A FRIDAY night away game at Hartpury at the end of January left me thinking, ‘what am I doing?’ After 13 years in rugby, in the National Leagues and latterly the Championship, having to tackle Nathan Hughes charging at me at full pelt as he peeled away from the back of a maul, with an arm that wasn’t right, made me finally realise that the end of the line was coming fo...