Sam Warburton backs Maro Itoje to captain Lions on South Africa tour
Sam Warburton has backed Maro Itoje to follow in his footsteps and captain the British & Irish Lions this summer
January 2020
Sam Warburton: ‘I want to be king of the jungle. But I’ve got zero credibility as a coach’
Wales’ new specialist breakdown coach tells Robert Kitson that he wants the team to thrive on the pressure of defending their grand slam title
October 2019
Web of fear: Sam Warburton tells of his arachnophobia
Ex-Wales captain tells Cheltenham literature festival he could never go on I’m A Celebrity
March 2019
TV tonight
TV tonight: Naomi Campbell lights up the Jonathan Ross Show
Sam Warburton: ‘Wales are in a great place. The World Cup is a realistic target'
August 2018
Ellis Jenkins: ‘It will ultimately come down to who is playing the best’
Ellis Jenkins tells Paul Rees his time spent learning from Sam Warburton will help him in his battle to secure a place in Warren Gatland’s Wales squad as an openside
July 2018
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Sportblog
Sam Warburton was a coach’s dream and will be an enormous loss to Wales
Paul Rees
Sam Warburton was in an elite group who led the Lions on two tours but will be missing at the World Cup in Japan next year
Sam Warburton announces shock retirement from rugby union aged 29
Sam Warburton, the former Wales, Lions and Cardiff Blues captain, has ended his playing career after a succession of injuries
December 2017
Sportblog
What if … the Lions’ third Test in New Zealand had gone into extra time?
Sam Warburton to miss Wales’s Six Nations campaign after knee surgery
September 2017
Wales’s Sam Warburton to miss autumn internationals with neck injury
Cardiff Blues have announced that the former Wales skipper, who captained the British and Irish Lions in New Zealand this summer, faces up to four months out
July 2017
Lions 2017: Guardian writers present their awards for the New Zealand tour