BEST BOSS...

Geraint Hughes (left) is presented with a plaque by Phil Basford, Chairman of the Dorset Youth Football League, after being voted county’s ‘Youth Manager of the year’. What made the award even more remarkable was that the Welshman, head of physical education at the Thomas Hardye School in Dorchester, had earlier spurned a career in football to play rugby for Dorchester.

As a fly-half, he was a prolific drop-goal exponent and place kicker with a burst of pace which often left the opposition’s wing-forwards to eat his dust. He was selected to play for the Dorset and Wiltshire county rugby team and also turned out at Twickenham in RFU’s county seven-a-side finals. These days he coaches the Dorchester under-12s.