More on the book in a moment but first a digression – who is Tim McCarthy? Another former rugby player, who I first met in 1981, when I returned from four years living in the Caribbean. I re-joined my NY based rugby club to find Tom had absconded with my first side position.
Tom was fast and cunning, and when he tackled you, it was important that your major medical be up-to-date.
Well, I gilded the lily a little bit in that last paragraph.