BACKGROUND
September 2008.
Kettering rugby club. I am playing in the lock position. I had complained to
the coach a few times that my fellow lock kept collapsing - bad technique - and
was concerned that someone was going to get injured. I was ignored. She was his
daughter.
Don't be under
any illusion here - I was very new to this, built like a lock, but not through
strength. I was unfit and overweight and this was the first game of my second
season trying to play rugby.