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What happened in the tunnel?

England, anxious to avoid falling into a Welsh trap and being hung out to freeze in a darkened Millennium Stadium while their opponents sat in their dressing-room, threatened at one stage to turn the stand-off into a farcical sit-down protest.

Adamant they would stand their ground in the tunnel until they saw Wales appear behind them, Chris Robshaw clearly smelt a Cymric rat. “How much longer are they going to be?” he asked the referee, Jerome Garces of France who looked as though he had about as much of a clue as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther.