PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW
Ambition achieved: Sam Warburton with the Lions in NZ
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■ A global perspective of Sam Warburton’s Test career puts him in the all-time top ten reserved for those captains who have completed 50 or more matches. That puts him alongside only one other British player, Will Carling, whose elevation to the England captaincy happened 30 years ago, some four weeks after Warburton’s birth.
From his very first match to the last, from the Under-9’s at Heol Llanishen Fach primary school to the Lions decider, Sam ...
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