Having explained the earliest stages of his career, and then his rejection from Berkshire, Tim describes the 1988 final and how he overcame racist remarks during his career:

"We were on a coach travelling to Twickenham and there were more supporters from Bristol because what happened, when they were playing against a London side, all the west country sides grouped together. So they would all come down en masse.

"They would have far more supporters than we did.

"I was outside the coach window and they were shouting 'WWWAAHHH' and I was giving it back until I got told off which wasn't the sort of thing we were meant to be doing, so I remember that very well.

"But it was a fantastic occasion."

Reflecting on some of the abuse he was given, Tim said: "Everyone deals with things in different ways. For me, I'm always having a laugh and rugby enabled me to become a confident person.

"On the pitch, I was called a 'black b******' a number of times, but what do you want to do? Fight about it - or do you say, thank you very much, you've got really good eyesight, thanks for letting me know!'

"When I was playing if anyone could take advantage they would do. At Twickenham there was one lad who after they scored took the ball and threw it at me and said 'keep on running black boy.'

"I thought, 'What do I do?'

"What I did was wait till we scored the final try to win the match and I picked up the ball and threw it at him and said 'look at the scoreboard'.

"You don't need to get angry, you don't need to get annoyed, you just need to get even.

"Just get to the point where you can converse with them and let them know they're a plonker."