Our Most Requested Guest Ever: Around The World With Freddie Burns

For The Love Of Rugby

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Sports, Rugby

4.8 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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At long last, Ben Youngs and Dan Cole are joined in the studio by none other than Rugby Globetrotter, Freddie Burns. Freddie shares stories about playing rugby across the world, THAT drop goal (obviously), his 2 week long career ending knee injury and many more. Sit back, relax and enjoy this episode which is of course, all about him. 🎟️ For The Love Of Rugby LIVE Tour 2026 Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/for-the-love-of-rugby-tickets/artist/5645678 🏉 Win Scottish Rugby prizes thanks to Vodafone. Click to see terms and conditions: https://loveofscottishrugby.com/ 🩸 Use code LOVEOFRUGBY to get 20% off your first Thriva blood test: http://thriva.co/ 📋 Fill out the FTLOR listener survey: https://forms.gle/rPGCtcPe7NpnBgfh6 ✍️ Subscribe to Coley's newsletter: https://loveofrugby.substack.com/subscribe 🤑 Win money for your rugby club: https://forms.gle/9PrSEohCYiLB4D9R6 📹 Send us your rugby videos: https://forms.gle/TrB1MB2V2krVXdqd7 💭 Got a question for us? Fill in this form: https://forms.gle/4o1f7VCSFvj5aZb38 💗 Buy a bobble hat: https://crowdnetwork.co.uk/podcasts/for-the-love-of-rugby 🎶 Music courtesy of BMG Production Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Do you belong here?
0:04.0	Troubleshooting an engine in the military workshop?
0:08.0	What's your gut saying?
0:10.0	Want to turn the volume down?
0:13.0	Or stay here and get paid to learn a trade
0:17.0	with an army apprenticeship that'll set you right for life still listening
0:22.3	you belong here army recruiting now search army jobs I remember we played a game
0:31.1	in sale and you you had a career ending two-week knee injury didn't you oh my god
0:36.3	that is not my fault.
0:38.3	When he called into the show last year, Colin, I don't remember, but he told us that he was basically the greatest player in Japanese rugby history.
0:44.3	Division 2.
0:45.3	Did you sit down by that statement, Fred?
0:50.3	He just got to the point where I went to give her a kiss and she gave me the cheek, which
0:56.0	was mightily embarrassing.
0:57.0	I'm thinking I'm the boy.
0:59.0	And then that was it, yeah.
1:01.0	And then I did sort of say, about me.
1:08.0	Right, he is the most requested man in the for love of rugby history.
1:15.1	Things like this don't happen to people like him.
1:18.1	Well, today it is.
1:19.4	It is only about him.
1:21.8	It is, of course, the one and only.
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