The moment Jacob Umaga realised his life was about to change came yesterday evening when he was cooking stir-fry at the home of a girl he is seeing. He had just met her mother and, to demonstrate his worthiness as a suitor for her daughter, was showing his hand in the kitchen when he looked down at his phone and saw that his name had been added to an unfamiliar WhatsApp group. The Wasps fly half stood staring at his phone in disbelief and his female friend — he does not wish to divulge her name, as she cannot yet be classed as his girlfriend — wondered what was wrong. “I had a look at who was in it, I saw Launchers [Joe Launchbury], Elliot…

Source: The Times January 20, 2020 17:03 UTC