These days Sinfield is comfortably off, but not really when you compare his fortune to top athletes in other sports. He knows he will have to get what he calls “a real job” when he finally retires. Not that he is resentful about it, for it has allowed him to maintain touch with his roots. “I’d love to be sat here now in the knowledge that I’d never have to work another day in my life,” he says. “To have that comfort would be brilliant. But it does provide that constant drive.”