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Peter Jackson: What we learned from the Rugby World Cup weekend 

Andy Farrell serves revenge to the Boks.
Peter Jackson: What we learned from the Rugby World Cup weekend 

JOB DONE: Ireland head coach Andy Farrell celebrates winning in Paris. Picture: INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Andy Farrell hadn’t been back to ‘The Flying Saucer’ on World Cup business since a familiar foe dished out the beating of his rugby life.

South Africa’s frazzling of ‘Faz’ and the rest of his Red Rose comrades can be found somewhere in a dark corner of the black museum at Twickenham. When they had done with thrashing the holders that night, the misadventure amounted to nightmarish proportions: 36-0.

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