Australia's Cheiks and balances

Australian coach Michael Cheika, who attempts to mastermind England’s downfall at Twickenham tonight, became a millionaire in fashion distribution, but insists rugby is a passion and not a job...

MICHAEL CHEIKA always loves a scrap and beckons on a new challenge. Yet even the Wallabies coach could have been forgiven for finding it a mite difficult to be playing the role of English rugby’s potential public enemy number one this week, the bogeyman with the capability of destroying a national sporting dream.

Of course, he looked the part of a good Bond villain. Big, burly, unshaven — Gold’ngreenfinger, perhaps — and we all know about him being hard as nails, quick to a fight and as hot-headed as a chilli farmer.