By PAUL REES

CHARLIE Sharples retired last week as a rarity in the modern game. He was a one club man, spending his entire career at Gloucester, the team he supported as a boy.
Sharples, one of the quickest wings seen in the Premiership, played 275 matches for Gloucester and won four England caps, straddling the Martin Johnson and Stuart Lancaster eras.
At the age of 32, he hoped he had another season in him but a succession of injuries meant his last match was against La Rochelle in the Champions Cup last April at an empty Kingsholm.
He recovered from the pec injury he sustained in that g...