When Jack Willis finally made it home after a day that he will never forget, he was hesitant to go through the front door. Willis and 166 other Wasps employees had been made redundant hours earlier and there were no more tears left to cry.
After the shock, Willis had dragged himself through a training session – and the day had begun brightly enough after he was named in the England squad for the autumn internationals – but he knew that returning home to his partner, Megan, and young child, Enzo, would set him off again. “I was reluctant to go back through the door because I didn’t really want to cry for the 20th time that afternoon,” he recalls.
