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Published 10:07 27 Feb 2017 GMT
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Clearly embarrassed over the situation and that Italy went toe-to-toe to a side who were supposedly, in Eddie Jones' words, meant to take Italy "to the cleaners", the English players resorted to questioning the integrity of the game due to to Italy's tactics.
A poor excuse when you can't front-up and admit that you got schooled for a large portion of the match.
Just watch some of these interviews below which were given to BBC 5 live Sport, cringeworthy stuff.
"I've never played in a team where that has happened," Dylan Hartley told BBC 5 live Sport.https://twitter.com/5liveSport/status/835955118008721408 Ben Youngs felt sorry for the spectators...good on him.
"You're trying to promote the game and it's not really a great advert is it...? "...Frustrating day, not a great day to promote the game,and the spectators, I feel sorry for them but we got the job done on a professional level."https://twitter.com/5liveSport/status/835947566541881344 James Haskell couldn't hide his frustration over the "stupid" rule.
"It's a pretty stupid rule and it probably should get changed because it doesn't make any sense! "It's one of those things that's never been done in an international game..."Sorry James, but Australia employed this tactic against Ireland last November and so have a countless number of other teams at various levels of the game, so it is not exactly something new. But don't let that get in the way of Italy's supposed ruining of the game. https://twitter.com/5liveSport/status/835939200549679105

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