THE death of Kenny Rogers earlier this week may have gone somewhat unnoticed in rugby circles but your columnist fondly recalls the legendary country and western star from when our paths randomly crossed one afternoon during Rugby World Cup 2007.
World Cups are a little crazy and we in the Press are not averse to playfully stoking the fires a little.
And so it came to pass that I spent the best part of an hour on the phone with Rogers the afternoon after England’s semi-final win over France the previous evening. My task was to get a few congratulatory quotes from Rogers, right, a...