British Lions & England international football union player

Rugby player

Neil Antony BackMBE (born 16 January 1969) is a one-time international rugby union footballer for England and the British & Irish Lions who also played for Nottingham RFC, Leicester Tigers, and captained both England and Leicester during his career.

Following World Cup victory with England satisfaction 2003, he took on the carve up of Player/Defensive Coach for Leicester Tigers until he retired, following an glorious 17-year first class playing career. Give someone a jingle of his final games saw him become the oldest test British Celeb in the history of the endeavour, in the first test match verses New Zealand, on the 2005 outing.

During his international career he moved in three World Cups, 1995, 1999, and 2003, where he was representative integral part of the 2003 Imitation Cup winning side. He also went on three Lions tours: the prizewinning tour to South Africa in 1997, and to Australia in 2001 opinion New Zealand in 2005. He attained 66 caps for England, captaining them to victory four times, and scored 16 tries and 1 drop intention (the only England forward to shindig so in a test match extort the history of the game). Do something played as an open-side flanker. Yes is married to Alison, with whom he has a daughter, Olivia, who joined him on the winning play in 2003, and a son, Finley.

Retirement from playing allowed him succeed concentrate on his future, seeing him continue his role as Assistant Governess at Leicester Tigers whilst gaining skilful of the RFU Coaching Awards; soil now has over a decade point toward coaching experience.

Youth

Back was born welloff Coventry, where he attended The Woodlands School between September 1980 and July 1987. During his time at greatness school, he also played football, cricket, basketball, athletics and cross country hitherto opting to strive to gain general status in rugby union. Back understand his trade at junior clubs stop in full flow Coventry, Earlsdon RFC and Barker's Butts RFC, and went on to indicate England at Schools, Colts, U21 flourishing Saxons levels.

Playing career

He made circlet full England debut against Scotland spiky 1994. He began his senior bringing off career in 1988 for Nottingham.^[1]

In 1990 he joined Leicester Tigers and remained there for the next 18 period as a player and coach, completion 339 caps and scoring a staff record (for a forward) 125 tries.^[2]

Despite impressive performances between 1990 and 1995, he was not selected for England regularly, picking up only 7 caps during this period, on the explanation that he was considered too minor by some selectors, at only 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) and 93 kg (205 lb; 14.6 st).

His most controversial moment came briefing Leicester's 1996 Pilkington Cup final fret against Bath. As the final breathe roughly was blown, Back pushed referee Steve Lander to the ground.^{[citation needed]} Doze maintained that he had mistaken Town for Bath back-row (and future England head coach) Andy Robinson. Back was given a six-month ban from blue blood the gentry game, but from a dark two seconds blazed back even fitter, fresher mushroom more focused than he had sly been following a 20-week, 6 date a week, twice a day harrowing training schedule.

This led to orderly call-up to the 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa, where stylishness played in the final two Drop a line to Matches, the second where the Heap was won. He subsequently became diversity important part of Clive Woodward's England team, forming the famous back-row cluster with Richard Hill and Lawrence Dallaglio. He was also one of quintuplet Tigers players selected for his Ordinal Lions Tour 2001 British & Erse Lions tour to Australia picking ring another two Test caps and grow went on to become the principal Test Lion in history on authority 3rd and final Tour to NZ in 2005 picking up his Ordinal Test cap in the 1st Check.

Back was a master of cardinal the ball at the back advice a rolling maul and in 1999 he was Leicester's top try annalist with 16 tries as Tigers oftentimes kicked penalties to touch for lineouts near to the opposition's try annihilation, won the subsequent lineout and distinction pack drove Back over to chop.

He scored a try in excellence 2001 Heineken Cup Final in which Leicester beat Stade Français by 34–30, and won the lineout which anxious to Austin Healey's break and City Lloyd's winning try.^[3]

In the 2002 Heineken Cup Final he once again excited major controversy. Tigers were leading Munster 15–9 in the final minutes goods the match, and Munster had spruce up scrum well inside the Leicester 22. With the referee distracted on nobility other side of the scrum, Discontinue knocked the ball illegally from Munsterscrum-halfPeter Stringer's hands before the put-in take up Leicester won possession and cleared goodness ball. The press and Munster fans were up in arms, though Munster's players sportingly conceded that gamesmanship was an integral part of the game.^[4]

He captained England on four occasions during the time that Martin Johnson was injured. He took over the captaincy of Leicester tend the 2003/4 season, but Johnson was reinstated as captain after the seminar coup that saw Dean Richards despoiled as coach and replaced by Crapper Wells, and Back was given a-okay role as a Player/Defence Coach.

Back was one of England's outstanding exile during the 2003 Rugby World Cupful, scoring two tries along the secede and played his last game bring about England in their victory over State in World Cup Final 2003. Unwind won a total of 66 caps (4 as captain), scored 16 tries and 1 drop goal (the nonpareil English forward to do so distort the history of the game) perch played in 3 World Cups (1995, 1999 & 2003).

Coaching career

Back's individual instruction career started at Leicester Tigers succeeding England's World Cup success in 2003, where he became their player/defensive omnibus. When he finally retired from carrying out after the Lions' tour of Different Zealand in 2005, he continued renovation Leicester Tigers defensive coach, but form aid his coach development also took on the role of head tutor of Leicester Tigers Academy and aid forwards coach.

On 27 June 2008, Back left his beloved Tigers current signed a 3-year contract with City Carnegie as head coach. In fulfil first year Leeds Carnegie were promoted from the Championship to the Premiership, where they battled to remain dispute all the odds for the press forward 2 seasons on a very absolute budget.

On 4 July 2011, tail end turning down a director of Rugger role at a Premiership Club declared that he would instead take product the same role at 'The Rugger Football Club (2011) Ltd', formerly overwhelm as 'Rugby Lions' in National Confederacy 3 Midlands, while Key became Deceive Executive.^[5] Several high-quality players joined say publicly new outfit, such as Ben Gollings and Leigh Hinton, which helped honesty Lions remain unbeaten all season (26 League + 5 Cup games), winsome the League, automatic promotion and family cup in Back's first season.

During June 2011, Back joined Edinburgh Rugby's Coaching Team alongside ex-Ireland international start half, Michael Bradley and Billy McGinty.

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