Brad Shields piles on the pounds and prepares for belated Wasps debut
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England’s New Zealand-born flanker had a tough time of it in South Africa during the close season and only now is he ready to rumble with his new clubAs understatements go, Brad Shields describing his whirlwind summer with England as “unusual” takes some beating, for there was nothing ordinary about the circumstances in which the 27-year-old made his much-publicised Test debut in June. But if it was all a bit of a blur for the New Zealand-born flanker, perhaps the debilitating food poisoning he describes as “the worst I have been sick in my life” explains why.Ruled out of the third Test agains…





