MY LIFEIN RUGBY
BRIAN MULLEN

THE FORMER LONDON IRISH & CLERMONT FLY-HALF

NOWADAYS it is a trend: players moving across the English Channel to play in France. But back when I moved to Montferrand (Clermont) in the mid-1980s, I was quite often the only foreigner playing, and probably the only one in the entire ground on a lot of occasions. You were on your own and you just had to get on with it. I remember one match when the Sydney Morning Herald sports writer, Peter FitzSimons, was playing second row for Brive, and we had a chat over the half-time oranges because it was a rare ...