Nobody ought to be surprised if The Stoop is rocking to the sound of Bob Dylan’s The Mighty Quinn at the sight of their team flying higher in Europe than before, according to Peter Jackson in the Daily Mail.
"Harlequins have not done much in Europe since one of their more promising fly halves took to the skies over wartime France and shot down 22 German planes.
Sir Douglas Bader, fighter pilot and Second World War hero, had been 'pencilled in' for an England cap against South Africa at Twickenham in January 1932.
"On the Monday after turning out for Quins in typically gung-ho fashion despite a broken nose from the previous week's skirmish with the Springboks, he crashed his plane in a low-flying stunt and lost both legs."
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