Loving life: Matt Symons in action for Harlequins
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IF we go right back to the start, I was at a state school in north London and never really came across rugby until an opportunity to trial for Saracens academy came along. When nothing came of that, my mum put me forward for the Olympic rowing pathway programme. They were looking for blokes over 6’4 and women over 5’10, basically big humans, and I got enrolled onto that and I sold my soul for three years getting flogged on a river.