“If another stonemason had told me 10 years ago I’d now be playing rugby and living in Paris I would have thought: ‘No chance,’” Finn Russell says with amusement as he reflects on how his life has changed since early 2011.
Racing 92’s brilliant fly-half will be vital to Scotland’s hopes of beating England again on Saturday in their opening match of the Six Nations – but 10 years ago he was playing for Falkirk in the second flight of Scottish domestic rugby while working as an apprentice stonemason.
