Losing Edwards Is Rfu's Real Crime ; Forget Blaming the Players for the Loss Against Wales, It Was the Decision to Let the Wasps Coach Slip Away Which Was Wrongthe Six Nations

Evening Standard - London › February 04, 2008

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LIKE the good schoolteacher he was, Brian Ashton sensed one of his pupils was about to get bullied. Hence, his lecture to the press corps that "I'm not going to single any player out and I think it would be wrong for you to do that as well".

Some hope there, Brian. The search for scapegoats at Twickenham was in full swing just about as soon as the whistle had been blown on the most deflating and outlandish capitulation by a national English sports team since the Ashes self-destruction in Adelaide last winter.

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Losing Edwards Is Rfu's Real Crime ; Forget Blaming the Players for the Loss Against Wales, It Was the Decision to Let the Wasps Coach Slip Away Which Was Wrongthe Six Nations

As the coach himself could only shrug that he had no clue why a team packed with seasoned internationals and completely in control of their opening Six Nations f...

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