For Hussey, rugby started as his local club began a new section for juniors. He said: “I started playing rugby for Bridport when the junior section was formed in the seventies.” After returning to Bridport after a stint living in Exeter, as a large 14-year-old, Hussey began to play up an age or two. He exclaimed: “Not being the smallest of lads I started playing alongside my brother, Simon, in the colts. This was supplemented with some games for the seconds on a Saturday as well.” Despite the now 50-year-old beginning to start his career in Salisbury, after his stepfather Eric Dunford had ‘opened his eyes to the world of funeral directing’, Hussey still made the effort to get back and play for the club.