In another life Christian Wade would have been playing for the Bills against the Ravens over the weekend, not scoring a hat-trick for Gloucester in their win at Bristol on Friday.
Wade, 33, is back in the Premiership after six years away, four of them in the NFL, and two more playing rugby for Racing 92 in France. He has already made headlines by saying he is determined to break Chris Ashton’s record and become the league’s all-time leading try scorer (he needs 17 more to do it) but underneath all that swagger, he has become a fascinating athlete to talk to; older, wiser, more reflective after his years away. He has done more living than a lot of people in his line of work.
