Rugby to the rescue

England's 2003 Rugby World Cup winners train prisoners for a grudge match against Australia

-  HANNAH DAVIES, RICHARD MCCLURE

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Grand Slammers
Wednesday & Thursday, 9pm, ITV1

While England's current rugby team is battling to win the World Cup in France, the heroes of the country's 2003 triumph are reunited this week in ITV1's uplifting documentary Grand Slammers.

Across two episodes, legends including captain Martin Johnson, Mike Tindall and Lawrence Dallaglio are tasked with training prisoners at HMP The Mount, Hertfordshire, using rugby as a form of rehabilitation.

The challenge is to get the inmates match-fit and then play alongside them in a rugby match against a team of expat Australians, bossed by ex-Wallabies scrum half George Gregan.

Here, Jonny Wilkinson, 44, and Matt Dawson, 50, tell us what to expect...

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