Ebook: Open Side

Sam Warburton OBE was not only a titan of Welsh rugby, but an icon of the game Havingrepresented his country as a playerand team captain at all junior levels, he propelled himself to international attention in 2011 when namedas the youngest ever captain of Wales for the Rugby World Cup. Despite his tender age, Sam'simmense displays for club and country were recognised still further in April 2013, when, at just 24, he was named the Lions' captain for theextraordinary2013 tour to Australia. Four years later, after a year 'in the wilderness', Sam was named Lions' captain yet again for the historic tour to New Zealand, thereby becoming the first ever Lions Captain never to lose a series in the professional era.Intelligent, calm, thoughtful in many ways seemingly the exact opposite of the smash and crash of modern rugby Warburton's edge never came with his size, but with his depth of thought, his reading of movement, and his understanding that, to be a uniquely successful...