SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE
CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 'Engage!' was the
last word Matt Hampson heard before dislocating his neck while in
rugby training with other young England hopefuls. On a cold, grey,
overcast day in 2005, the cream of young English rugby gathered at
a Northampton training ground. Matt Hampson, 'Hambo' to his mates,
was one of them. He had dreamt of playing rugby for England ever
since he had picked up a rugby ball at school. His skill,
conviction and dedication had brought him to the cusp of realising
that dream, in an England U21 team that included Olly Morgan, Toby
Flood, Ben Foden and James Haskell. But as the two sets of forwards
engaged for a scrum on the training field, the scrum collapsed and
Matt, who played tight-head prop, took the full force of two
opposing sides. In that moment his life changed forever. Paul
Kimmage went to visit Matt as he recuperated, and wrote a piece for
the Sunday Times which won him his third successive SJA sports
interviewer of the year award. They struck up a friendship and
here, Paul tells Matt's whole story, in all its intimate detail.
From the build-up to the dreadful day, to Matt's recuperation, to
his struggle to adjust to normal life again, to his family and
friends, to other tragic incidents on the rugby field, to the
response of the RFU, this is a story of terrible sadness yet
unadorned triumph and joy, of anger yet of reconciliation and peace
. . . of a boy who became a man.
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