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England’s 1991 Rugby World Cup finalists: Where are they now?

OC 12 Jeremy Guscott

In 1999, he was accused of assaulting a pedestrian shopkeeper during a road rage incident in which the man’s ankle was shattered, but was cleared of actual bodily harm by Bristol Crown Court. Guscott now works full-time for the BBC as a pundit on their Rugby Special, Scrum V and 6 Nations programmes.


LW 11 Rory Underwood

Despite planning to hang up his boots in 1992, Underwood changed his mind and opted to carry on, initially for the next match against South Africa (their first match since their readmission to international sport), and eventually for several more years – playing mostly now on the left, to accommodate his younger brother, Tony, on the right wing. They were the first brothers to represent England at the same time since 1937.

Off the pitch, the England speedster was a Fast Jet pilot in the RAF from 1983 to 2001 before becoming a Director of UPH Ltd, a management and teamwork training company, from 2001 to 2009. He now combines being a Non- Executive director of Leicester Tigers with owning Wingman Ltd, which is a is a team development and performance consultancy built on the high-performance experience Underwood’s international rugby and fast jet flying careers. 


FH 10 Rob Andrew

The following year he played a season with Toulouse before returning to Wasps and in 1993 featured in all three Tests on the Lions tour to New Zealand. Having equalled Didier Camberabero’s then world record with 30 points in the 1994 win over Canada he then played in every international during 1995 as England notched their third Five Nations Grand Slam in five years and reached the semi-finals of the World Cup in South Africa.

That year he was awarded the MBE, having retired from international rugby and also agreed to join Newcastle as playing rugby development director. He came out of international retirement in 1997, coming on as replacement in England’s March win over Wales. That year Newcastle Falcons won promotion into the Premiership and then won the title at their first attempt in 1998. Under Rob’s guidance Falcons also beat Harlequins and Sale Sharks respectively in two RFU Knock Out Cup Finals. After 10 years at Newcastle Falcons, Rob Andrew joined the RFU in September 2006.

He resigned as the RFU’s director of professional rugby in February 2016 before being appointed cthe hief executive of Sussex County Cricket Club.

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