Mike Tindall says he will be happy to do a job for England if asked by new head coach Stuart Lancaster.
Centre still hoping to resurrect his international career
Mike Tindall says he will be happy to do a job for England if asked by new head coach Stuart Lancaster.
World Cup winner Tindall was one of several veterans to see their international careers apparently ended when Lancaster took over in an interim capacity following Martin Johnson's exit.
However, the Gloucester centre still appears to harbour ambitions with England.
"He came and saw me when he took over (as interim coach) and said he needed to find out if a group of young players can play," Tindall told the
Mail on Sunday.
"It was the right thing to do, absolutely. I'm the sort of person who'd never say never to anything, and certainly not to England.
"It's one of the proudest moments of your life when you represent your country, and if I am ever asked to play again, I will."
Tindall said in a statement last November that he felt he had been made a "scapegoat" for England's poor displays on the pitch in New Zealand.
He has remained tight-lipped over the topic since issuing an unreserved apology for his controversial night out in Queenstown soon after returning home, but feels he will never change some people's opinions of him.
"Given the same situation, you wouldn't repeat it. But neither did England get knocked out of the World Cup because we went for a night out," he added.
"I've stayed away from talking about what happened because people have their fixed opinions and you can't compete when people have already made up their minds," he said.
"Obviously it wasn't ideal for me to end up as hammered as I was. That's a given.
"It's just that the reaction to my mistake turned into a rollercoaster that I couldn't control. But the people close to me, those I love, know what actually happened, and it just wasn't some enormous crisis."
