William Robert Green (born 25 October 1973 in

Littlehampton Littlehampton is a town, seaside resort, and pleasure harbour, and the most populous civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the English Channel on the eastern bank of the mouth of the River Arun. It is south sout ...

) was a

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footballer who played at

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for

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and

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Club career

Green began his career at

, making his debut in 1995 and remained there until 2005. Whilst at Wasps he won the Heineken Cup in 2004, the Challenge Cup in 2003 and the domestic Anglo-Welsh Cup (currently known as the LV Cup) in 1999 and 2000. He was also part of the Wasps team which won the Premiership in 1996/97 and a further hat-trick of Premiership titles in 2003, 2004 and 2005. In the summer of 2005 he joined

where he remained until his retirement from the game in 2007.

International career

Green had previously played for various England youth teams alongside the likes of

Will Greenwood William John Heaton Greenwood, MBE (born 20 October 1972) is an English former rugby union player who played for Leicester Tigers and Harlequins and was a member of England's 2003 World Cup-winning team and the 1997 British & Irish Lions. H ...

Matt Dawson Matthew James Sutherland Dawson, MBE (born 31 October 1972) is an English retired rugby union player who played scrum half for Northampton Saints and then London Wasps. During his international career he toured with the British & Irish Lion ...

Simon Shaw Simon Dalton Shaw MBE (born 1 September 1973) is a former English rugby union player who played as a lock. He played for Bristol, London Wasps and Toulon. He won 71 caps for England between 1996 and 2011, and 2 for the British & Irish Lions ...

and Richard Hill. After making his England debut against Australia in November 1997, Green went on to make 4 appearances for the national team. He was considered an outside candidate to be part of Clive Woodward's ultimately victorious

2003 Rugby World Cup The 2003 Rugby World Cup was the fifth Rugby World Cup. Originally planned to be hosted by India, all games were shifted to Australia following a contractual dispute over ground signage rights between the Indian Rugby Union and Rugby World Cup ...

winning squad. However, he was overlooked in the end, despite getting his 4th and final cap against Wales in one of England's warm up games prior to the World Cup, and being in the wider 43-man squad.

Honours

* English Champions titles: 4 **1996/97, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05 * RFU Tetley's Bitter Cup & Powergen Cup / Powergen Anglo Welsh Cup titles: 2 **1998/99, 1999/2000 *

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titles: 1 **2003/04 * Parker Pen Challenge Cup titles: 1 ** 2002/03

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