'Big Basta à Big Apple': Mathieu Bastareaud comes to New York

The giant French centre will play Major League Rugby next year and Samu Manoa, for one, is readying a very warm welcome indeedMathieu Bastareaud arrives at the hotel on Lexington and 57th with a stiff neck, but it’s not something to worry the French selectors. In Manhattan for the first time, he has simply spent most of his time looking up at buildings even bigger than he is. Related: Major League Rugby expands with care – is the Premiership watching? I think a lot of people don’t understand why I come here. But I think in one season they will change their opinion Related: If you build it, wil…