BEAUDEN BARRETT
THE PHONE rings. It’s Rugby World. They are keen for a feature. “What’s the subject?” “Beauden Barrett.” “How many words?” “1,600.” Now, normally I’d try to haggle the fee (undisclosed) up and the wordage down but this is ‘BB’.
“Can’t we make it 2,000 words, please?”
Ah well, 1,600 it is but the world’s greatest attacking rugby player is one of those sportsmen I could spend all day eulogising, reviewing matches, famous plays, stuff on YouTube; all in the line of duty, you understand. If the Martians are zooming in on events in Japan, Barrett is the boy that’ll catch their attention. That is, if they like it fast and exciting. If they like an injection of dare, of dash.
Where to start. First capped for the All Blacks in 2012… but you know that and anyway, he is one of the least statistical sort of men you could wish to watch on a rugby field. He’s
