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Harmony? Eddie has put boys under a bus

CHRIS HEWETT

England’s coaching staff do not always sing from the same hymn sheet. Sometimes, they struggle to preach the same religion.
Brian Ashton hardly performed cartwheels of joy when, in the early stages of a fraught 2007 World Cup campaign in France, his colleagues Mike Ford and Jon Callard piped up in the Press about perceived weaknesses at the heart of the Red Rose operation.
“I wonder whose turn it is today to make my life even more bloody difficult than it already is,” he muttered, not quite under his breath, at one point during the pool stage.
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