France’s formidable former back-rower delights in his villainous caricature and sticks by slight on their great rivals ...

Amazingly, that is not Harinordoquy’s most notable Biarritz appearance. That came a year earlier, ahead of a European Cup semi-final against Munster where a broken nose left his availability for ...

The WhatsApp profile picture of Imanol Harinordoquy is a mugshot of Darth Vader and, as I find out towards the end of our rendezvous in a Parisian café, his ringtone is The Imperial March.