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O’Connor brought a hint of terror to his writing

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By PETER JACKSON
ENGLAND had fallen to an abject home defeat in the early Seventies when the coach, captain and chairman of selectors presented themselves for interrogation at one of
Twickenham’s first postmatch Press conferences. Terry O’Connor of the Daily Mail asked each in turn why they had not seen fit to shorten a shambolic line-out. Coach, captain and chairman talked round the subject to O’Connor’s increasing annoyance whereupon he had the last damning say.
“In view of the utter ineptitude of the answers,’’ he said with a booming e...

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