Aaron Beard: "I started to think about whether something else would make me a bit happier"

NICK FRIEND – INTERVIEW: As a teenager, Beard was considered an England quick of the future but at 26 made the decision to end his playing career, having fallen out of love not with the game itself but with the struggles of playing it

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