Rugby’s prodigal son has finally made it to the top and Wales are reaping the rewards. David Walsh speaks to Wales' Andy Powell in the Sunday Times.
"There was the time at Mount Street junior school that he was disciplined for fighting. A small boy, Matthew, was being bullied and one arm of his glasses was broken. When Andy saw what was happening, he lost it. “He went schizo,” says Sarah [his mother]. “He never cared about the trouble he would get into for fighting the little boy’s corner.”
“Did the old girl remember that?” Powell asks. “‘Pick on someone your own size’, I said to the bloke — and only then noticed he was bigger than me. ‘Where do you go from here?’ I thought, but I felt no fear. It’s one of those things. I can’t stand bullying and I hate to see somebody being picked on. I never worried about how big the bully was.”"
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