Edwards plays down Rover row

WELSH coach Shaun Edwards, pictured, has been accused of changing the lines in an Irish trad song in the build-up to allegedly headbutting an Irish sports scientist.

Monaghan’s Fergus Connolly is part of the Wales backroom team and, after beating Ireland, was the subject of banter on the team bus. He responded by singing a duet of the Wild Rover with manager Warren Gatland.

Edwards sang his own version of the folk song replacing ‘I’ve been the wild rover for many a year’ with ‘I’ve been a wife beater for many a year’.

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