Thomas sorry for stand-off

WALES captain Gareth Thomas yesterday apologised for a stand-off between players and the media at a press conference ahead of Sunday's RBS 6 Nations Championship clash against Scotland.

The Welsh squad had refused to attend the conference in Cardiff yesterday until a journalist who ghost-wrote Gavin Henson's book My Grand Slam Year had left the building.

Thomas and his players had taken exception to an article the journalist had written in the England-Wales match programme last Saturday claiming Henson had a right to make comments in his book.