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Clive Woodward
British rugby union player and coach
Rugby player
Sir Clive Ronald WoodwardOBE (born 6 January 1956) is an English former rugby union player and coach.
He was coach of the England team from 1997 to 2004, managing them to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup. He also coached the 2005 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand, losing the test series 3–0.
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He is currently a pundit for ITV Sport, working on their coverage of the Six Nations and Rugby World Cup.
Early life
Woodward was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, the son of an RAF pilot. He started school at Corstorphine in Edinburgh and was later sent to the school shipHMS Conway, as his father disapproved of his ambition to play professional football.
At Conway, he played rugby union at centre alongside fly-half Iain Duncan Smith, who would later become leader of the Conservative Party. According to Woodward, he was not selected to play for the Welsh Schoolboys side because he was English, but