England star Max King recalls childhood taunts as he represents his birthplace

MAX KING hopes to make those who dished out the childhood taunts eat their words by inspiring England to World Cup glory. The Canterbury Bulldogs prop may now sound as Aussie as they come but when he moved there as a seven-year-old, he was Huddersfield through and through. And kids being kids, he was reminded of that at every opportunity at the new school he started. Fast forward 22 years and he is part of Brian McDermott’s squad – four years after he hoped to represent the nation of his birth – looking for success.