Ambition has many faces for loyal Chris Pennell

Here on the sports pages, we haven’t much time for modest ambition.

We tell
stories of young men and women striving for the top, we hail outliers,
überachievers and those on the ascent of their Everest.

The summit is where
professional sportspeople want to be, right? Only up there is a success
story completed.



For Chris Pennell, though, base camp is at Worcester and, for now, he has
elected to stay there.

Quite probably, the last you will have seen of him
was a late substitute’s cameo for England against New Zealand in the summer.


This season, then, he will