O’Driscoll: Flutey caused my collision with O’Connell

IRELAND rugby captain Brian O’Driscoll feels his collision with Paul O’Connell in the recent victory over England at Twickenham was caused by English centre Riki Flutey.

O’Driscoll was on the ground late in the game when he took a heavy knock to the head from O’Connell’s knee, but he said on his blog yesterday that if Flutey – a transfer target for Munster – had not tripped him he wouldn’t have had O’Connell running into him.

“As for the blame game, I’m beginning to come round to the suggestion that Riki Flutey is the villain of the piece,” said O’Driscoll. “If he had not tripped me, I think I would have collected the chip ahead comfortably and not found myself scrambling around unaware that I was about to become road-kill.