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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Donald McRae

Dan Biggar: ‘I quite enjoyed taking flak and proving people wrong the next week’

Dan Biggar at a sea-front cafe in Toulon
Dan Biggar at a sea-front cafe in Toulon where he has taken to a new life playing in France. Photograph: Maïté Baldi/The Guardian

“I’m certainly not your stereotypical Welsh fly‑half and I don’t apologise for being different,” Dan Biggar says with a wry smile at a little restaurant on the beach front in Toulon. “I quite like the fact that I was different and did it my way.”

Storm clouds are rolling in from the sea and the atmospheric setting adds to a compelling conversation with Biggar, who, in contrast to his feisty image on the rugby pitch, is a friendly and thoughtful man. The darkening sky reminds us of Wales, which, for Biggar, “has always been a land of poets and dreamers”.

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