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Rugby Union: Jones breaks media silence to attack Wales’s ‘illegal’ scrum

by Our Sports Desk

England head coach Eddie Jones accused Wales of scrummaging “terribly illegally” as the build-up to tomorrow’s Six Nations title showdown between the arch-rivals finally ignited.

Jones claims Warren Gatland’s men pre-engage at the scrum knowing that the referee will eventually tire of awarding penalties against them out of fear of being criticised for ruining the game.

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