Charlie Hodgson
 |
|||
| Full name | Charles Christopher Hodgson | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 12 November 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Halifax, England | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Weight | 86 kg (13 st 8 lb) | ||
| School | Bradford Grammar School | ||
| University | University of Durham | ||
| Rugby union career | |||
| Playing career | |||
| Position | Fly-half | ||
| Professional / senior clubs | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2000–11 2011–16 |
Sale Sharks Saracens |
228 132 |
(2,558) (870) |
| correct as of 21 May 2016. | |||
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2001–12 2005 |
England British and Irish Lions |
38 | (269) |
| correct as of 25 October 2011. | |||
Charles Christopher Hodgson (born 12 November 1980) is a former English rugby union footballer. He played as a fly-half for Sale Sharks and Saracens. He is the leading Premiership points scorer of all time. Hodgson also played for England, until announcing his international retirement in 2012. Only two English fly-halves have started ten or more Test matches in a row for England; Hodgson holds the record for most consecutive starts: 18 between 2004 and 2006.
Born on 12 November 1980 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, Hodgson was educated at Bradford Grammar School; the school hosts a rugby tournament for under-12s called the Charlie Hodgson Cup. He was a huge Halifax rugby league fan long before he ever played rugby union. A family friend invited him to Old Brodleians rugby club and his first game was for the opposition, as they were short. He has also played for Old Brodleians, Durham University and Yorkshire. He was first picked for Yorkshire by Keith Dyas.
He marked his England début with a record breaking 44-point haul against Romania in November 2001, the most by any England player in a test match, when England won 134–0.
He was selected at centre in the 2003 Six Nations. He played 2 games at centre, only to be demoted to the subs bench for the third match against Italy. It was in this game he picked up a serious injury. He made a return to action during the 2003/04 season, after having been sidelined for eight months with a ruptured cruciate ligament in his left knee. The injury had denied him selection for the 2003 World Cup and another injury kept him out of the 2004 Six Nations. He played at fly-half during the 2004 summer tour to the Southern Hemisphere, for all three internationals against New Zealand and Australia. He was named Man of the Match against Canada in the Autumn of that year.
...
Wikipedia