'Nerve-wracking' week ahead for Williams; RUGBY UNION.Byline: ANDREWBALDOCK WORLD player of the year Shane Williams This article is about the Welsh rugby player. For the American actress, see Shanésia Davis-Williams. Shane Mark Williams (born 26 February 1977 in Swansea) is a Welsh rugby union footballer who plays as a winger for the Ospreys club and Wales but who can is ready for a "nerve-wracking" week as British and Irish Lions
The British and Irish Lions (until 2001 known as the British Isles Rugby Union Team or more colloquially the British Lions boss Ian McGeechan for mulates his Test team. Williams, a Wales Grand Slam hero and multiaward winner in 2008, knows the side to face world champions South Africa in Durban on Saturday week will be picked on form, not r eputation. Williams' Ospreys colleague Tommy Bowe looks to have nailed down the Test number 14 shirt, leaving the Welsh wizard in a three-way fight with Ugo Monye and Luke Fitzgerald as his strike p a r t n e r. S The 32-year-old said: "No one has an idea of who is going to be selected for the Test. "The nerves are always there. It is nerve-wracking but you have got to do your talking on the field." The Lions have posted 21 tries during a fourmatch unbeaten run in South Africa, yet despite Williams starting three of those games, he has yet to break his duck. But Williams added: "I enjoy my rugby, full stop, whether it is going my way or not. "If it is not going my way, I am not going to stay in bed and cry myself to sleep for 24 hours Adv. 1. for 24 hours - without stopping; "she worked around the clock" around the clock, round the clock ." |
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