Ronan O'Gara on what makes the perfect 10 for the modern game 

THERE he was, this game little eight-year-old, chasing every one of our dead rugby balls like a buck, writes Ronan O'Gara.

Few of us were fathers at the time, so you don’t pay as much attention as you should to these things. He was Mike Ford’s son at Ireland training. That’s all we knew.

And so when George Ford took the conductor’s baton at No 10 for England last weekend against Australia, it brought it all full circle. Him watching me, now me watching him.