My Life in Rugby

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My Life in Rugby: Former Yorkshire Carnegie fly-half Alberto Di Bernardo

21 August 2020 0 comments

Former Cornish Pirates, Yorkshire Carnegie and Benetton back Di Bernardo reflects on his career

My Life in Rugby: Ex-Wallabies, Reds, and Worcester full-back Chris Latham

3 August 2020 0 comments

Latham shares the stadium where he delighted in playing rugby and how Jason Robinson was one of his toughest tests in 2001

My Life in Rugby: Former Sale Sharks back row Apollo Perelini

13 July 2020 0 comments

A teammate of Scott Gibbs in league, an opponent of Martin Johnson’s in age-grade union, read Perelini’s dual-code tales

My Life in Rugby: Former Exeter Chiefs scrum-half Hadyn Thomas

7 July 2020 0 comments

Thomas also played for Gloucester and Bristol but remembers the Championship final drama of ten years ago most

My Life in Rugby: Ex-Scotland and Saracens lock Tom Ryder

29 June 2020 0 comments

Jon Newcombe talks to the player who introduced the Tiki Tiki Tonga song to Saracens

My Life in Rugby: Former Bath and England captain Phil de Glanville

23 June 2020 0 comments

A captaincy with England which started with its challenges after succeeding Will Carling

My Life in Rugby: Former USA Eagles captain, Leicester and Cardiff Blues full-back Blaine Scully

8 June 2020 0 comments

Scully explains how his career started Stateside and drew the attention of Leicester in 2013

My Life in Rugby: Playing for British & Irish Lions was most special honour for Rory Underwood

29 May 2020 0 comments

England’s all-time leading tryscorer played in a World Cup and was a spectator at the 2003 triumph in Sydney

My Life in Rugby: Former Scotland, Leicester, Edinburgh and London Irish back Greig Tonks

18 May 2020 0 comments

The versatile Scotland international lives in the comfort of having no regrets at retiring, aged 30

My Life in Rugby: Former Argentina, Gloucester and Leeds winger Diego Albanese

11 May 2020 0 comments

From debut against Uruguay to the 1995 Rugby World Cup just a few months later

My Life in Rugby: Wasps openside flanker Paul Volley

28 April 2020 0 comments

The No.7 talks Jon Newcombe through his time at Wasps, Castres, Harlequins and London Scottish

My Life in Rugby: Ex-Canada, Sale, London Welsh and Esher utility back Phil MacKenzie

21 April 2020 0 comments

Three relegations haven’t dampened the Canadian’s outlook on his time in English club rugby

My Life in Rugby: Former Pontypridd, Dragons and Cardiff fly-half Lee Jarvis

9 April 2020 0 comments

Jarvis reveals what it was like for him to practice with Neil Jenkins when he was on the fringe of Pontypridd’s first team

My Life in Rugby: Wallabies great Michael Lynagh

3 April 2020 0 comments

Former Queensland, Benetton and Saracens fly-half recalls the most entertaining Test he played in

My Life in Rugby: Former Ulster and Northampton No.8 Roger Wilson

31 March 2020 0 comments

A 15-year rugby career saw the back row play for Ulster, Northampton and Ireland

My Life in Rugby: Former England Sevens star Christian Lewis-Pratt

18 March 2020 0 comments

Lewis-Pratt also played XVs for Northampton, Leeds Tykes and London Irish

My Life in Rugby: Former Leicester Tiger back Matt Smith

6 March 2020 0 comments

Now Leicester Tigers academy head coach after retiring last season

My Life in Rugby: Former England captain Catherine Spencer

27 February 2020 0 comments

TRP columnist features in our My Life in Rugby section

My Life in Rugby: Former London Irish and Scotland forward Kieran Low

22 January 2020 0 comments

A remarkable story of a player who reached the heights but can’t recall some moments due to concussion

My Life in Rugby: Former Wasps, Bath and Yorkshire Carnegie prop Charlie Beech

4 January 2020 0 comments

Now shifting his career into an office after 15 years in the front row

My Life in Rugby: Former Ireland prop Paul Wallace

28 November 2019 0 comments

One of the Lions’ victorious tourists to win in South Africa in 1997

My Life in Rugby: Former Saracens and Namibia flanker Jacques Burger

22 November 2019 0 comments

Jon Newcombe talks to the ferocious back row forward on how his career began in desperate circumstances at Griquas

My Life in Rugby: Former Bath, Toulon and Sharks scrum-half Michael Claassens

1 November 2019 0 comments

A player who loved running out at The Rec before stints with Toulon and the Sharks

My Life in Rugby: Former Scotland lock Scott MacLeod

14 October 2019 0 comments

A Scot who played against England twice in his international career and was victorious on both occasions

My Life in Rugby – Hugo Southwell: Former Scotland, Edinburgh, Stade Francais and Wasps full-back

3 October 2019 0 comments

Southwell recalls the World Cup heartache of 2007 when the Scots were knocked out in the quarter-finals by Argentina

My Life in Rugby: Former Italy full-back Luke McLean

5 September 2019 0 comments

Luke McLean talks World Cups and being coached as a debutant by Nick Mallett

My Life in Rugby: Former Gloucester, England and Lions prop Phil Blakeway

19 June 2019 0 comments

Phil Blakeway revels he the battles he had with Wales and France

My Life in Rugby: Former England and current Wasps back Danielle Waterman

27 March 2019 0 comments

World Cup glory, an Olympic dream and now being coached by Giselle Mather

My Life in Rugby: Former Nottingham and Saracens back Tim Streather

8 September 2018 0 comments

The ex-Sarries centre talks about how back and knee injury proved an obstacle too difficult to overcome

My Life in Rugby: Bruce Reihana – former All Blacks, Chiefs and Northampton back

20 July 2018 0 comments

Now skills coach at Bristol Bears

My Life in Rugby: Junior Fatialofa – Former Cornish Pirates, Exeter and Bristol centre

29 June 2018 0 comments

One of my earliest rugby memories was watching Western Samoa, captained by my Uncle Peter, beat Wales at the 1991 World Cup. At the time, […]

My Life in Rugby: Former England and Wasps lock Tom Palmer

5 May 2018 0 comments

My 19-year, 450-game professional career began in 1998 with Leeds Tykes, who were then playing in the Allied Dunbar Premiership 2. I was still at […]

My Life in Rugby: Former England and Bath No.8 Dave Egerton

28 November 2017 0 comments

Dave Egerton reflects on his career with England & Bath, where motivation was borne out of a desire to be considered the greatest No.8

My Life in Rugby: Neil Mason – former Moseley and Worcester flanker

26 September 2017 0 comments

As a competitive back-row forward, there is always going to be a thin line between being on the right or wrong side of the law. […]

My Life in Rugby: Garath Archer – former Newcastle, Bristol and England lock

19 September 2017 0 comments

Despite the fact my dad played on the wing for Gosforth when they were in their hey-day in the 70s, I wasn’t keen on rugby […]

My Life in Rugby: Jamie Noon – former England, Newcaslte and Brive centre

12 September 2017 0 comments

Scoring a hat-trick against Scotland in my first Six Nations campaign – I think I was the first England player to do so in a […]

My Life in Rugby: Gavin Cattle – Cornish Pirates legend

22 August 2017 0 comments

I always thought of myself as more of a game manager rather than a game changer, feeding off the good work of others around me […]

My Life in Rugby: Jan Webster – former England and Barbarians scrum-half

15 August 2017 0 comments

After all these years, I’d like to put the record straight – I did not decline to play over in Ireland at the height of […]

My Life in Rugby: Andy Saull – former Saracens, Newcastle and Yorkshire Carnegie flanker

8 August 2017 0 comments

Running out first in front of an 80,000-plus world record crowd at Wembley to mark my 100th appearance for Saracens was a moment in my […]

My Life in Rugby: Kurt Johnson – former Coventry and Orrell wing

1 August 2017 0 comments

With my hair dyed pink and the No.14 shaved into the back of my head, people might have wrongly assumed I was full of bravado […]

My Life in Rugby: Ben Gotting – former Wasps and Worcester hooker

11 July 2017 0 comments

To play in the 2004 Premiership final and make a significant contribution to our 10-6 win over Bath was undoubtedly a career highlight. I rate […]

My Life in Rugby: Tom Johnson – former England and Exeter flanker

4 July 2017 0 comments

I was a bag of nerves before my first Test against South Africa in 2012. Geoff Parling told me afterwards that he didn’t know how […]

My Life in Rugby: Mike Worsley – former England prop

20 June 2017 0 comments

I was born in Warrington and my uncle, Ken Gill, played Rugby League for Great Britain but I never played the 13-man game, it was […]

My Life in Rugby: Steve Ravenscroft – former England centre

6 June 2017 0 comments

Looking back on my playing days I feel incredibly fortunate to have been at a club like Saracens, at such a transformative time in the […]

My Life in Rugby: Jimmy Richards – former Harlequins hooker

30 May 2017 0 comments

Growing up in a small fishing village in North Pembroke-shire, it wasn’t unusual for me be up at 2am and spend 18 hours out at […]

My Life in Rugby: Simon Binns – former Leicester fly-half

23 May 2017 0 comments

I experienced some memorable wins as a player – beating Bath at home while at London Scottish, for example – but the big one that […]

My Life in Rugby: Peter Scrivener – former Wasps No.8

16 May 2017 0 comments

In the early days of professionalism, I was officially the highest paid player in the world which still makes the lads chuckle today. Nigel Melville […]

My Life in Rugby: Seb Jewell – former London Welsh full-back

9 May 2017 0 comments

I fell into professional rugby and then fell in and out of love with it several times along the way. Originally, I was going to […]

My Life in Rugby: Andrew Turnbull – former Scotland Sevens and Rotherham wing

2 May 2017 0 comments

When I turned up for my first World Rugby Sevens Series tournament in Hong Kong in 2004, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Up until that […]

My Life in Rugby: Gary Powell – former Gloucester prop

25 April 2017 0 comments

After countless hours playing Jonah Lomu Rugby on the PlayStation at Llandovery College it was surreal to suddenly find myself sat alongside some of the […]

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