The rocky (and hairy) road to redemption

Dylan Hartley is perhaps the first person to have found redemption in the form of a moustache.

Last summer the England hooker was contemplating where it all went wrong. Sent off in May’s Aviva Premiership final for calling referee Wayne Barnes ‘a fucking cheat’ — a comment he insists was aimed at Leicester counterpart Tom Youngs — Hartley disappeared to Santa Monica as he was handed an 11-week ban that ended his chance of touring with the Lions.

There he stayed with one of the founders of Movember, the charity that raises money for prostate cancer by asking men to grow moustaches through the month of November.