Leinster doctor ‘barred’ from Bloodgate changing room

LEINSTER’S match-day doctor Professor Arthur Tanner believes the Bloodgate scandal would not have happened if he had been allowed to inspect the bogus mouth injury of Harlequins wing Tom Williams.

Tanner said he was stopped from entering the Quins dressing room as his opposite number cut Williams’ lip to cover up the ruse in last year’s Heineken Cup quarter-final at The Stoop.

Dr Wendy Chapman said on Tuesday that she was ashamed that she succumbed to “huge pressure” from Williams, who wanted to conceal that minutes earlier he had bitten into a fake-blood capsule.