Old Boys are a proper club, I have so much to be thankful for, says Probyn

AMONGST the most illustrious Streatham and Croydon Old Boys is none other than England prop and Rugby Paper columnist Jeff Probyn whe enjoyed a few enjoyable formative seasons in the front row there in the 1970s. “The club was borderline first class back then with a really strong fixture list and I joined them from Old Albanians as a teenager,” he said. “I had finished as the Old Albanians top scorer the previous season – as a 17-year-old loosehead prop – and took that as a message I should perhaps be playing at a slightly higher level. &#x201…