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SCALING NEW HEIGHTS

ONE QUESTION and about ten seconds is all it takes for Zander Fagerson to mention the word vasectomy – an unconventional beginning to a chat with the Glasgow and Scotland tighthead, a man who has the size and the ability to become a huge force in the game if only he can catch a break on the injury front.

Fagerson is 24 years old and it feels like he’s been around forever. He made his Glasgow debut at 18 and his international debut at 20 against England in Eddie Jones’s first match in charge. His CV includes mountain biking, choir singing, lifeguarding, something involving prawns – and rugby.

“I’m a changed man,” he says, when talking about his new life as a father of little Iona, born in May 2019 while her dad was hauling his battered body back into life in time for the World Cup, which he just about made. “Being a father, I see the world in a whole new light, with far

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