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Shaun was never slow to tell me if I was wrong

MY LIFEIN RUGBY
STUART ABBOTT THE FORMER ENGLAND, WASPS & HARLEQUINS CENTRE

I ONLY arrived in England, where my mother was born, in the April of 2001, so to make the England squad just two years later was a real source of personal pride. I didn’t know the implications at the time but I would go on to become a World Cup winner, meet the Queen and the Pope, and be awarded an MBE, something that I could only ever dream of.
It wasn’t as if I hit the ground running at Wasps, either, as Lawrence Dallaglio was injured and Mark Denney, who played in the same position as me, ...

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