Hook sights Slam as he lines out with heroes

TWO years ago James Hook watched Wales clinch the Grand Slam from a pub on St Mary’s Street after failing to get a ticket for the Millennium Stadium.

Hook, who at the time was still a semi-professional with Neath, celebrated that triumph over Ireland with the 300,000 other supporters who had flooded into Cardiff.

It was a victory which inspired the greatest party Welsh rugby could remember for 27 years — and no shortage of hangovers — but for Hook it confirmed what he wanted from his life in rugby.