Ali Price knows the recipe for success

British & Irish Lions' Ali Price is tackled. Picture: INPHO/Dan Sheridan

If Ali Price finds his name in Warren Gatland’s matchday squad for Saturday’s opening Test against the Springboks, it will complete a remarkable rise from kneading dough at a bakery to using his loaf for the British & Irish Lions.

Price, 28, is the Glasgow Warriors and Scotland player who represents the biggest threat to Conor Murray’s bid to become a Test scrum-half on three successive Lions tours but speaking yesterday, the English-born scrum-half, revealed yesterday he had already been on a “crazy” journey to get to this point.