Gaffney: English jibes can’t sway ref
Having had six players yellow carded in the November internationals and four more in the bin in the RBS Six Nations games against France and Italy, the English have clearly decided that they should go down a different route in search of what they perceive to be fair play.
Their attack coach Brian Smith was particularly harsh on Joubert’s fellow-South African Jonathan Kaplan after the defeat by Wales, claiming that Warren Gatland’s men “had done their job at getting stuck into the referee before the match”.