Neil Squires of the Daily Express profiles Quade Cooper, the fly-half who will be starring for the Wallabies in New Zealand when he could so easily have been lining out for the All Blacks.
"When he was seven, Quade Cooper watched with awed delight as Jonah Lomu destroyed England in the 1995 World Cup semi-final. Back then he was a Kiwi kid revelling in the sight of the monster in black running free.
"As children do, he headed straight into the back garden in New Zealand’s Waikato province and attempted to emulate the bulldozer. Quade Cooper and his friend re-enacted the scene over and over again, taking it in turns to be first Jonah Lomu and then his Cape Town carpet Mike Catt.
"The irony is Cooper has not grown up to be an All Black like Lomu but the dazzling playmaker of the side most likely to stop them winning their own World Cup, Australia."
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