The Daily Telegraph's Steve James talks to Scarlets No.8 Ben Morgan about his career choices.
"Ben Morgan has made the right decision. He has chosen the land of his birth and upbringing rather the land where, at the Scarlets of Llanelli, he has made his rugby name. And now England have chosen him in their Elite Player Squad.
"This is not your stereotypical story of the rise and rise of a young rugby player, spotted early and carefully reared in the sanitised environment of an academy. Morgan has done it his way – a very different way.
"Born in Bristol, he grew up in Kingswood, Gloucestershire. From the age of five he was playing at his local club, Dursley, where Gloucester wing Charlie Sharples, who won an England cap against Wales last summer, joined him in the under-14 and under-15 sides. Just imagine if both were to be selected against Scotland on Feb 4.
"I played in every age group, except one year when I had Osgood-Schlatter disease, right through to the under-17s, then the colts, and then I had one season of men's rugby," says the personable Morgan, "I played centre, wing and full-back when I was younger. When I was about 10 or 11, I turned to No 8."
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