Alfie Barbeary: ‘I try not to think about England … it gets in my head and I don’t play well’

Bath’s European player-of-the-year contender on international recognition, the ultimate test in Bordeaux and those budgie smugglersThe shortlist for this year’s Champions Cup player of the year award is an eyecatching one. There are five contenders and four of them – Louis Bielle-Biarrey, Finn Russell, Matthieu Jalibert and Caelan Doris – are established world-class operators. So who is the fifth Beatle? An uncapped Englishman who eats only toast on matchdays and is arguably most famous for para...