I lie in bed and think Jonny Wilkinson has done very well, says Toby Flood

Evening Standard

Toby Flood may give the impression he was made for rugby but he never really saw it as a career - it happened by accident.

In the opinion of many rugby experts, England's performance in the 19-9 defeat to Wales last Saturday was not so much an accident as a car crash waiting to happen. But the 26-year-old England fly-half is taking me on a more reflective journey as he talks of why he became a rugby player not an actor.

The stage or screen would have been the obvious career choice. Both his grandfathers were actors, one of them, Albert Lieven, played a German general in The Guns of Navarone and his parents are still involved in the theatre. But Flood says: "It just never appealed to me."