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'I'm no different to any other player, I'm here to play rugby and not to put my feet up'
By Online Editors
'New' signing Tom Varndell has vowed to help Leicester Tigers climb back up the Premiership table.
Last week the midlands club announced the return of the former England international, and the Premiership Rugby’s all-time record tryscorer, returned to the field for the Tigers on the weekend, nine years after his last appearance for his first professional club.
“I’m no different to any other player, I’m here to play rugby and not to put my feet up or have a holiday," told Leicester Tigers website.
Varndell quit Soyaux Angoulême after just six appearances, leaving for 'family reasons' despite being just six months into a two-year contract.
“I’m an old head now at 32 and a lot of rugby has been played between my first stint with the club and now, I don’t think anything is more special than coming back to where it all started for me. It was my first club out of school, so to wear the shirt again, which I never thought I would is amazing.
“It’s so amazing to be back and to get the run out on straight away, despite the result not going our way, I just really enjoyed it.
“It’s just nice being back, the environment is good and Geordan has the boys fired up for some big games coming up.”
Geordan’s just told me to go out there, do my best and if you’re playing and training well enough, the chances will come,” Varndell told the club website.
“There are still players here in the squad who I played with. Manu and Ben Youngs were coming through the ranks, so it’s nice to have some familiar faces here.
“Everyone has to prove themselves, it doesn’t matter who you are or how much rugby you’ve played and that’s what I want to do here in Leicester.
“I am here to help 100 per cent, Leicester Tigers is a club I hold very dear to my heart and for me it’s a priority that we finish in the top four and make the playoffs.”
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That's really stupidly pedantic. Let's say the gods had smiled on us, and we were playing Ireland in Belfast on this trip. Then you'd be happy to accept it as a tour of the UK. But they're not going to Australia, or Peru, or the Philippines, they're going to the UK. If they had a match in Paris it would be fair to call it the "end-of-year European tour". I think your issue has less to do with the definition of the United Kingdom, and is more about what is meant by the word "tour". By your definition of the word, a road trip starting in Marseilles, tootling through the Massif Central and cruising down to pop in at La Rochelle, then heading north to Cherbourg, moving along the coast to imagine what it was like on the beach at Dunkirk, cutting east to Strasbourg and ending in Lyon cannot be called a "tour of France" because there's no visit to St. Tropez, or the Louvre, or Martinique in the Caribbean.
Go to commentsJust thought for a moment you might have gathered some commonsense from a southerner or a NZer and shut up. But no, idiots aren't smart enough to realise they are idiots.
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