RUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

And now for something completely different. A long time ago, when I used to pen a column about celebrity rugby fans and former players and their love of the game, I heard rumour that Monty Python star Terry Jones, who died last year, was a very decent player and closet rugbyhead back in the day.
It seemed unlikely. The Python crew seemed much more football and cricket orientated on the sporting front and I couldn’t recall any oblique mentions to rugby in their glorious sketches. You normally p...