From Tonga to Twickenham: Mako and Billy Vunipola’s incredible journey | Andy Bull

Born in Australasia, raised in Wales and now the force behind England’s resurgence and the all-conquering Saracens, the Vunipola brothers have achieved more than they could have dreamed after arriving in Britain in 1999The Vunipola boys were never meant to become rugby players. Their father, Fe’ao, played the game all his young life, as his father and grandfather had before him. But Fe’ao and his wife Singa wanted Mako and Billy to become professionals, “doctors, lawyers, teachers, anything which would last.” Rugby, Fe’ao says, “is a hard life, and a short one”. He recalls one night in Pontypo…