Rugby World heads to the French Riviera to visit the four latest English expats trying to become Toulon legends

HARDY PERENNIAL

The room erupts. Not with cheers, but laughter. There are around 400 people at Gateshead’s Hilton Hotel, including Dan Burn, and a joke has just been cracked on the microphone at the defender’s expens

AN ENGLAND AND BRITISH & IRISH LIONS LEGEND, MAKO VUNIPOLA IS LOVING LIFE WITH VANNES IN FRANCE AND COULD YET MAKE THE 2027 WORLD CUP WITH TONGA

W HEN I signed for Bayonne last year, ...

What is life really like for British and Irish players who make the leap across the Channel? RW spoke to them to find out