Jonny May is in high spirits, the sun is out and he is back in the England fold after nearly five months on the injury list after knee surgery. He is sanguine about his spell on the sidelines, something he sees as an occupational hazard, and considers himself fortunate to have had so few in his career.
He remains as amiable as ever – Eddie Jones, the England coach, no doubt whisked him back into the camp after 25 minutes of rugby under his belt for Gloucester for what he brings off the field as well as on it – and his trademark tendency to go off on engrossing tangents when reliving his layoff gives a rounded picture of how a professional athlete so obsessed with honing their craft copes with being unable to do so.
