As the national anthems play at Twickenham on Saturday Ben Youngs will gaze up into the stands and experience the purest surge of shared family love. There will be no need to see individual faces to know how the extended Youngs clan is feeling. At such times the outcome of any game of rugby, high profile or not, becomes all but irrelevant. “When we found out the dreadful news, rugby, for me at that point, just wasn’t important. My personal ambition isn’t important or relevant right now.’ Once I’d made the decision that was it.

Source: The Guardian November 10, 2017 15:10 UTC