Rugby Union - England Training - Clifton College Sports Ground, Bristol, Britain - August 16, 2019 England's Jonny May during training Action Images via Reuters/Matthew Childs/Files
OITA, Japan (Reuters) - Jonny May will win his 50th cap when England play Australia in Saturday's quarter-final, but things might have turned out differently if he had not stayed sober on the last weekend of the team's tour of Argentina in 2013.
With the British and Irish Lions touring New Zealand, then-coach Stuart Lancaster had taken an experimental squad to South America. The uncapped May was overlooked for the first two matches and then failed to make the cut again for the third.
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