Leigh Halfpenny: The unassuming Welsh rugby great who has hung up his boots

Leigh Halfpenny played for Cardiff, Scarlets, Toulon, Crusaders, Harlequins, Wales and the British and Irish Lions

It's not often BBC Radio 1 come to the Scrum V desk looking for help lining up a guest.

But news of Leigh Halfpenny's retirement at the end of this season has attracted widespread, and deserved, attention and acclaim.

Second in the 2013 BBC Sports Personality of the Year behind Wimbledon champion Andy Murray, he was a British and Irish Lion whose appeal stretched way beyond the traditional image of a rugby player - youthful, almost boyband in look, he had a reach few in the game ever manage.

Halfpenny would have baulked at that description.