Banned: Joe Marler

NOBODY has yet pinned down the origins of the ubiquitous phrase ‘revenge is a dish best served cold’, possibly because in many cases it just isn’t true.
Ask Joe Marler. When TJ Ioane clocked him in the 53rd minute at Sale last week your sympathies might well have been with the Quins prop if he reacted instantly in kind. Ok, he might have got yellow carded but his reaction would have been seen as reflex or instinctive and Ioane, below, would probably have joined him in the bin for ten minutes.
But the cold, calculated, premeditated revenge that followe...