How Richard Parks found out the hard way that there is life after rugby | Robert Kitson

The Welshman was at a loss when he finished playing but, as his book details, he found an extraordinary new direction Adam Jones interview: I want to play at the World CupThe list of inspirational Welsh rugby union players is a long and evocative one. Even kids in England grew up calling them simply by their initials or first names JJ, JPR, Merv the Swerve, Barry, Gerald, Gareth.I cant have been the only English schoolboy to spend his youth trying to torpedo the ball from right to left like Phil Bennett. Every time a current player opts for a dull, conservative AFL-style straight-on punt to t…