PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

AS traumatic Six Nations’ finales go, the one when Ireland under Warren Gatland barged another English Grand Slam into the Liffey, still takes some beating.
After more than 20 years it stands out, not merely as the day a distressed Clive Woodward lost the ultimate prize for the third season in a row but as a stark example of how his opposite number wound up losing a great deal more. While the beaten coach carried on regardless, the victorious one lost his job.
England had run riotously to four straight wins in 2001 before a foot-and-mouth epidemic...