‘You’d get a bit of grief off the butcher if you had a home loss’

2004: Northampton The Account

“I remember when I moved to England first the hardest thing to organise was a bank account, oddly enough. It was a lengthy process — I had to go to meet the bank manager and bring the manager of the rugby team with me. Certain things had to be signed off by all three parties, I had to produce testimony from my employers, the rugby club, to prove I was on the level. That was a bit of an ordeal compared to other stuff.”

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