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57 old farts and one nauseous reporter!

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Controversy: Will Carling, right, with RFU president Dennis Easby, left, and Les Cuworth in 1995
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REMARKABLY it’s exactly 25 years since Will Carling’s relatively innocent quip about the 57 old farts at the RFU caused a mass venting, if you will excuse the phrase, and sense of humour failure at Twickenham, a process that laughably resulted in his sacking and then reinstatement as England captain all in the space of two days.
It was on the evening of May 4,1995 that Channel 4’s documentary Fair Game hit the airwaves after a blizzard o...

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