#5. Mike Catt (Port Elizabeth, South Africa)
The Port Elizabeth-born playmaker dreamed of playing for the Springboks throughout his sport-fuelled youth, but he would instead achieve one of his career highlights playing not for but against the green and gold of South Africa.
Having appeared in a World Cup and won a Grand Slam with England in his three-year international career prior to the 1997 Lions tour, Catt admitted to being devastated to miss out on a place in Sir Ian McGeechan’s original squad to tour his homeland.
He would eventually win a late call up after injury to Paul Grayson, meaning he would be presented with the ultimate honour of representing Britain and Ireland against the country in which he was born and raised.