It was an otherwise uneventful autumn day in October 2017 and Josh McNally, a lock for the Premiership team London Irish, had finished a big game against Saracens. After the final whistle, McNally, then 27, had a chat with his teammates before heading off the pitch. It was only while driving back to his home in Uxbridge that he started to feel out of sorts — and it wasn’t because Saracens had won the match. He brushed it off but the next half an hour would almost finish his rugby career.
“I started getting really irritated by the lights of the other cars on the road, which was, well, pretty odd,” says McNally, who also serves in the RAF. About 15 minutes later, as he
