Q&A

Andy Ward

What sticks in your mind from 1999?

“The breakfast we had in the Berkeley Court at 9am and the buzz outside the windows of the hotel. We came down three or four days beforehand to do a lot of training so we missed a lot of the hype and we only picked it up that morning. That got the juices flowing! Travelling from the hotel to the ground, the bus was getting stopped in the streets. Then, we decided to do a bit of a lap before we came into the changing room to change shirts. Colomiers were still doing their warm-up and we ran right through the middle of them. The crowd just kicked off and you could see them thinking “oh dear, this is going to be a tough afternoon’. The game itself is a bit of a blur.”