By PAUL REES
RICHARD Wigglesworth will be on course to become only the second player to feature in the Premiership after turning 40 if he carries on for another season with Leicester.
Wigglesworth, who will be 39 in the week of this season’s Premiership playoffs, has another year on his contract with the Tigers as a coach but said talks still had to be held over whether he would continue his career as a scrum-half which started at Sale 20 years ago.
Only one player has appeared in the Premiership after reaching 40, Brad Thorn, who also played for the Tigers. The World Cup winning All B...
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