“I have so much admiration — Tommy catching a bus every morning, going to live in digs in Leicester at the age of 16, like a footballer from another age. He’d make his way to college.”
So said Tommy Reffell’s old teacher at Pencoed Comprehensive School, Simon King, four years ago, commenting on his former pupil’s bold decision to head for Leicester Tigers as a raw teenager.
Fellow Pencoed product Sam Costelow took the same route as well. Costelow is now beginning to prosper with the Scarlets, while Reffell is a Gallagher Premiership title winner with Leicester Tigers. Good on both of them.
