Richard Parks is taking a quiet moment up in the stands of Pontypridd RFC’s Sardis Road home ground. The Welsh rugby union legend might be better known these days for his extraordinary journeys across the ice caps of the poles, and for planting the Red Dragon flag on the planet’s highest peaks – but it was Ponty, he says, that made it all possible. “I was born here,” Parks, 48, says. “My time with this club has shaped so much of my life. It’s always been a club much bigger than just sport. As