MY LIFE IN PICTURES… KEN OWENS
2010
CORNER STOP
“This was an interesting week. I was called up to train with Wales, then got released to go to Dublin to play this game (against Leinster). I hadn’t had much time with the boys but we’d spoken about filling the field.
“From a scrum, Rhys Priestland put in a chip kick, Andy Fenby picked up the ball, then there were a couple of offloads, hands, hands, hands, we moved the ball.
“I managed to get on David Lyons’s shoulder, I thought he’d show and go but he gave it to me. I only had ten metres to run, I’d not done any of the hard work, but I got Try of the Season.”
BADGE OF HONOUR
“Unbelievable. This was my first game for the Lions (against the Blues) and I’d only just made the tour – Gats (Warren Gatland) gave me every opportunity to get fit and thankfully I did.
“I was outside the team room before the team announcement and he said, ‘Do you want to be captain?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He walked off like he does and I was thinking, ‘What just happened there?’
“For me to be part of
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