Victor Radley spent his first days in England on the sauce with captain Sam Tomkins and aims to make sure the World Cup ends in a big party, too.
The fiery Australian loose forward’s been a revelation since turning his back on a potential Kangaroos call-up to play for the land of his father. Radley’s form has been so good this tournament that he’s in the running for the 2022 Golden Boot alongside England team-mates Tom Burgess and George Williams. And today he hopes to fire up again to knock Samoa out and clinch a spot in next Saturday’s Old Trafford World Cup final against Australia.
Fittingly, Manchester is where Sydney Roosters star Radley quickly got to grips with his English roots - with a little help from Tomkins - before the full squad got together. He recalled: “We’d trained and then they said we had three days off. I was a bit like, ‘Oh, what am I going to do’. I spent the whole three days with new people that I’d met and loved every second of it.
