KEITH WOOD, of Garryowen, Munster, Harlequins, Ireland and the Lions, tells a story which he prefaces with an almost apologetic reference to its ‘fantastic, name-dropping’ content.
The scene is the 2003 BBC Sports Personality of the Year which Ireland’s newly-retired captain attends on the night his fellow Lion, Jonny Wilkinson, won the big prize.
“I was sitting between Roger Federer and Sven- Goran Eriksson,’’ he says. “Suddenly I see this stocky black guy waving in my direction. He’s shouting: ‘Woody, Woody.’
“It ...