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Torch-bearer for generation lost to sport

It was not so much a request as a royal command when John Rutherford hauled me aside in the wee small hours following the Scottish Rugby Awards dinner and pointed out that David Leslie could do with a lift to his son Rodric�s flat in Edinburgh�s New Town.

It was not so much a request as a royal command when John Rutherford hauled me aside in the wee small hours following the Scottish Rugby Awards dinner and pointed out that David Leslie could do with a lift to his son Rodric's flat in Edinburgh's New Town.