Charvis About to Hit the Heights ; Wales Cap King Won't Give Way to the Young Pretenders

Daily MailJanuary 31, 2006

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COLIN CHARVIS will have clambered to the top of a mountainous heap at Twickenham on Saturday, still defying those threatening to put him out of business.

'The young lads have been telling me how they're going to knock me off my perch,' he says, chuckling at their bravado. 'I don't find that at all insulting. I welcome it because it shows their ambition and that's good. Mind you, they've been saying it to me now for about three years.' When he lines up against England, Charvis will be playing his 83rd Test match, which puts him joint top alongside Olivier Magne of France and Argentinian Rolando Martin as the most- capped back row forward of all time.

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Charvis About to Hit the Heights ; Wales Cap King Won't Give Way to the Young Pretenders

With Magne surplus to French requirements and Martin in his third year of retirement, the dreadlocked Welsh flanker ought to be out on his own by the end of the championship, not that he dares look beyond Twickenham. At 33, a few mo...

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