Sport has come out of the realm of Joe Public and into the sphere of commercialisation. Through television, and the way it is shown to be done properly. No longer is it possible to hack away at a ball and call it hobbies, as long as you know it wouldn't be done that way on the telly, you can't and shouldn't be doing it.

It comes in the Will Carling tradition and also in your tradition. Rugby means all or nothing to everyone. Man machoing man and women fulfilling themselves and me seeing it just as I want to, none are right or wrong, just a different way of imagining the same scenario.

I've tried juggling the egg shaped ball, which was always near enough, but recollections come from the images that are fixed in my brain, just as the scars are on my skin.

Les Rowe 1996