"After this bloody birthday, I’m going quiet for a bit!"
Getting hold of Jonathan 'Jiffy' Davies is no easy feat at the minute. He is coming off the back of a month of celebrations for his landmark 60th birthday, has the Rugby League World Cup to commentate on, with the union autumn internationals looming just around the corner.
Fielding phone calls the day after his birthday, the head is probably a little rough. Throw in the unwanted present of a Covid booster and flu jab — "all in one, no half measures with me!" he jokes — and it's a hardly a surprise he is contemplating a vow of birthday-related silence at the end of our second phone call.
