Paul Ackford talks to England's latest second-row hope, Gloucester's Dave Attwood, in The Daily Telegraph.
"I feel like one of those Wagyu cows," he says. "You know, the ones that produce Kobe beef, the ones that get fed on beer and get massaged daily with rice wine. I haven't quite managed to stay out of the gym, though."
"Whether he likes it or not, Attwood has come to represent Martin Johnson's new England. The uncapped second-row is only 23, and like Dan Cole, Ben Foden, Chris Ashton and Ben Youngs, has leapt from obscurity to, if not global recognition, then a position of some prominence.
"Attwood is everything Johnson wants in a rugby player: a bristling lump of a lock who puts himself about, operating with an energy and an enthusiasm which makes a difference to the outcomes of games. Rather like the old maestro himself in fact."
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