INTERVIEW: Peter Stringer looks back on his rugby career

Peter Stringer was the long-time first-choice scrum-half with Munster and Ireland before falling out of favour and making the decision to reboot his now 18-year professional career in England. He relives it all in his new autobiography, ‘Pulling the Strings’, writes Brendan O’Brien

Q: Let’s start with the obvious so, why write the book and why now?

A: I’d never really thought of it throughout my career. I’ve read the odd sports book, but I wouldn’t be an avid reader or anything like it. I hadn’t led a controversial life either, but with the last few years and having to move away and reinvent myself I felt there might be a story there. I suppose I wanted to enlighten people a bit, that I wasn’t just jumping ship.