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Mr Prickly leads the world for grumpy PR

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The Rugby Paper Team
15 March 2020

PETER JACKSON

Grump: Alun Wyn Jones at Twickenham Press conference
PICTURE: Getty Images

THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW
Over the course of 14 seasons as an immovable fixture on the international scene, Alun Wyn Jones’ longevity has been underpinned by a slavish devotion to the first rule of his professional catechism: “Why be helpful to an interviewer when you can be awkward?” For all the praise they shower on him, for all their collective acknowledgement of his towering presence as captain of Wales, Jones sticks to his ‘give-’em-nothing’ mantra with unwa...

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