‘I don’t think anyone really saw it coming. I didn’t’: meet Bristol’s World Cup hopeful Fitz Harding

The Guardian

The 27-year-old flanker confounded expectations leaping from Durham university’s fourth XV to Prem rugby captain – don’t bet against his big England ambitions At the start of every season for the past few years Fitz Harding has written down his goals for the next 12 months on the first page of a crisp new notebook. “You can probably guess what they are,” says Bristol’s impressive captain before his team’s trip to Saracens on Saturday afternoon. “I want to win the Prem, I want to play for England, I want to go to the World Cup.” He makes it sound almost matter-of-fact, like a list of basic…