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WHAT IT’S LIKE TO… LEAVE RUGBY IN YOUR PRIME

WHEN NEWS drops of a player under 30 retiring, it’s inevitably because of a career-ending injury. Not so with Sam Harrison. The Leicester scrum-half does not hit the milestone birthday until April and is still fit to play, but we need to add the word ‘former’ to his title because he has called time on his professional career to move to Australia with his family.

“I always wanted to finish rugby on my terms and now is a good time,” says Harrison, who spent more than a decade at Welford Road. “I’ve taken my destiny into my

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