The Times' David Hands visits Leicester to talk to Ben Youngs and his brother Tom who are following in the footsteps of their international scrum-half father Nick.
"The Youngs brothers from Leicester, you might think, are open to suggestion. Tom, the older, is in the process of making that most rare of transitions, from centre threequarter to hooker; Ben, 32 months younger, was a teenage rebel against the thought of playing scrum half because he wanted more space to run the ball out wide, but now he rather likes it.
"So much so, in fact, that some critics make him a contender to be named in England’s elite squad tomorrow, while Richard Cockerill, the Leicester head coach and a former England hooker, believes that Tom, who will turn 23 this month, could play senior club rugby in his new position and has the attitude to go even higher. It is all enough to make a father’s head spin, particularly when that parent played for Leicester and England — at scrum half."
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