Josh Lewsey recounts his career in his autobiography One Chance: My Life and Rugby . Read his words in the Daily Telegraph.
"It was 2000 and I'd been playing full-time professional rugby for over four years and, without a sniff of international rugby, I was unhappy and bored. Rugby was not challenging me enough; I needed to find something that did.
"The following phone call – inevitable, of course, since the army had put me through university – could not therefore have been better timed. Cue the accounts department at Sandhurst. "Are you joining us or can we have the bursary back, please?"
"Now, obviously the boys teased me that I was the only man in history to be so tight as to join the army rather than pay back a student loan, but the reality was that if I wasn't going to reach the top of my current career, then I would try to be top in another. With a few adjustments to my contract with Wasps, I agreed to take the Queen's shilling."
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