5 Things to Know About Lions call-up Liam Williams, including truly bizarre tattoo

Wales fullback Liam Williams has been selected for the British and Irish Lions squad to take on South Africa.

There’s no question that the speedster will be in and around the Test team.

One of the players I admire most; an unbelievable defender who is superb under the high ball but can stick his head up from behind the goalline, too.

Here are five things you might not know about the 30-year-old Scarlets and Wales speedster.

Asked about another noticeable feature on his body, Williams revealed the bizarre story of why he has the name 'Janette' tattooed on his right ankle.

"Oh, that’s (Cardiff Blues star and former Scarlets team-mate) Steven Shingler’s mum’s name," he said.

"I had that done during a boys’ trip to Ayia Napa because it was better than having my girlfriend’s name on my backside like the rest of the group!"

A school boy developed by the local Waunarlwydd RFC club, he was not picked up by any of the Welsh regional professional academies, and hence aged 16 started working as a trainee scaffolder at Port Talbot Steelworks, whilst continuing to play for Waunarlwydd

This is the picture that illustrates the heights Williams has scaled to reach international rugby. It wasn’t work for the faint-hearted, with Williams rigging scaffolding “over the top of a blast furnace, 300 feet from the ground” back in Wales.

It was while he was on holiday in Greece as a small boy that another British family reckoned the Saracens-bound star looked like Sanjay Kapoor, the former market trader from Eastenders! The name stuck.

Williams has got it right on and off the pitch. The Swansea-born fullback is engaged to model Sophie Harries, who describes herself as a “small town Welsh girl living in London.”

Williams began the first test against the All Blacks at 15, contributing to a 'wonder try' that was the stand out score of the series/ This involved collecting the ball under pressure in his own 22 before side stepping All Blacks captain Kieran Read and driving past others up to halfway before offloading to Jonathan Davies. After exchanges with Elliot Daly, Sean O'Brien then finished the move.