Obviously the best training for playing James Freaking Bond would be rugby, and so it was for Hoylake RFC’s most famous Old Boy. It also goes a long way towards explaining why Craig’s face looks like it’s absorbed a punch or two in its time
Not sure of this...but might have been reasonable
George W Bush
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US President George W. Bush
Played fullback at Phillips Academy and Yale. ...Haha....such a blind and short-sighted man .....bahahaha
US President Bill Clinton
Played prop at Oxford....funniest of them all...can you imagine him propping up a guy a guy like Malcolm Marx.
French President Jacques Chirac
Played second row and number 8 for Brive’s youth team and the Paris Institute for Political Studies. Shouldn’t be a surprise that a man nicknamed “le bulldozer” played in the pack. Once was quoted as saying “rugby is a metaphor for life.”...not too bad
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Was playing for Kirkcaldy High School in Fife at age 16 when he received a boot to the head that tore and detached his retina in his left eye. This injury nearly blinded him in that eye, but didn’t stop him from earning a Ph.D. in history from the University of Edinburgh or taking over the PM slot from Tony Blair... Another Blinded fool who would have been better playing rugby than politics
Javier Bardem
Likewise, the Spanish actor best known (by some of us) for playing the psychopathic hit man Anton Chigurrh in “No Country for Old Men” and for learning English from AC/DC songs played well enough to represent Spain’s national U-21 side as a flanker and prop. He said in an interview that “playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan,” which makes about as much sense as the Chirac quote....could replace Kolisi
Russell Crowe
Okay, one more actor. I have to mention Crowe, because not only did he play (and continues to, if this video is anything to go on), but he was able to buy the club he’s supported since he was a boy, the South Sydney Rabbitohs, and seems to behave around them exactly the same way we all would if given the same opportunity...a good actor and seemingly nice feller but acting is better...that's for sure.
Andre the Giant
I’m throwing this one in because the prospect of playing against him – even as a very large boy – is, frankly, terrifying. He played as a teenager in Grenoble until he took up wrestling. He was already six and a half feet tall when he started. I also feel compelled to mention that he was friends with Samuel Beckett as a boy...maybe he could have coupled with Sebastien Chabal or Idi Amin.
Idi Amin
In addition to other dark arts the English taught the future Ugandan dictator at Sandhurst, they turned him into a second row. Amin continued to play for clubs in Kampala afterwards, but retired from the sport in order to focus full time on killing as many people as possible and providing safe haven to terrorists....either with Sebastien Chabal or Bakkies Botha.
Che Guevara
No list of rugby celebrities is complete without mentioning Che, who, like Amin, gave up his passion for rugby to devote himself full time to killing people. Before he did that, though, Guevara played center for San Isidro in Argentina. Che was so enthusiastic about rugby, he ran a weekly magazine called “Tackle,” which lasted for three months in 1951...an executioner and brave man but always on the wrong side!
