Rugby legend Neil Back on Ireland vs England red carpet scandal in 2003 | RugbyPass Offload

[@mikeridley2728]

Neil Back all-time legend the most professional and technically proficient flanker to come out of England.

[@joelyons886]

Back was one of the all time greats technicallt superb physically tough as nails and bedevilment level @110%!

[@justindaley2460]

If it was intentional, it worked. If it was unintentional, it worked. NIce job.

[@akirakhadoanh]

Good man, I like his thinking. I'm Scottish.

[@dannygray-mi3xn]

Ireland tried some BS, on the wrong team😂

[@scallytron]

Absolute bull, Back and Co had played in Landsdown many times, and knew the protocol.

[@markrothery8719]

The backs having to do their hair before they went out to celebrate seemed to go over everyones heads

[@Kenny-zn6dl]

It was no big deal to the English and Johnson, imagine if the irish did the same thing to the Queen, Charles, Anne or any royal in Twickenham, it wouldn't be accepted. It's water under the bridge now but the English team and indeed management and particularly woodward and Johnson showed a complete lack of respect to the irish president, disappointing.

[@mrshickadance2328]

Lol

[@elainec6687]

Not a single one of them believe the crap he's spewing, not even him 🙄 not sure why he's bothering.

[@celtic333ful]

Nothing wrong with anything he said.

[@aaroncreagh5358]

I get what he means about not wanting to give ground up symbolically before a big game, but disrespect is disrespect. Imagine if it was one of their unelected "royals who had to walk in the mud, they'd have thrown their toys out of the pram immediately, and probably brexited themselves out of the 6 nations

[@jellybeans4249]

Bitter?

[@mrshickadance2328]

Cry harder x

[@martyndaly1539]

If you watch the footage she's not on the carpet when she's meeting the England team who had carpet in front of them so it's all a load of BS anyway

[@dannygray-mi3xn]

Ireland didn't even tell England about ANY of the pre game BS. That's your faults. That English team was the wrong team to try it on....😂

[@johnoriordan7419]

They could have stood where they liked Saturday 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@christianoverkliftvaupelkl8552]

Backs have to do : hair make-up :)

[@andrewbrolly2000]

A load of nonsense…the away team have always lined up on the same side.

[@WiseHotdog]

Maradona Neil ..

[@stevenbissett]

'We were not told'. What a cop out. Once you were told you should have done as you were told. But instead, you chose not too.

[@sgu02nsc66]

To be fair, he answered that: Wasn’t briefed Told last second Decided no because of psychological disadvantage Could argue that was morally wrong, but some blame goes to the officials for poor planning.

[@stevenbissett]

@sgu02nsc66 Typical pommy response. Oh, we weren't told far enough in advance. So what's the time limitation?

[@sgu02nsc66]

@@stevenbissett calm down

[@stevenbissett]

@@sgu02nsc66 you sound like Borthwick

[@adamgrimsley2900]

Hmm

[@goonertrooper]

What a load of ballocks from him, they knew it would rile up the Irish he admitted they where not going to move for any reason.

[@jaynedavis3655]

Move on you Big Ponce

[@briansmyth7275]

Hi stupid do they think people are...lies lies lies

[@decekfrokfr3mdx]

His whole argument is so stupid. If you're asked to stand on another side of the pitch (just for the anthems) by a groundsman, you do it. It's not 'conceding ground' - what a stupid and bullheaded way to view a simple request. It's literally just moving 20 yards to stand for anthems.

[@celtic333ful]

Mind games. Rugby players at this level understand the importance of it. Fair play to them.

[@1beady1]

If it was so inconsequential, Ireland could have just stood on the other side. Obviously there were mind games and pride at stake for both teams.

[@celtic333ful]

@@1beady1 Ireland did stand on the other side which meant the Irish President first greeted the English team while on the red carpet but the poor thing had to stand on grass while greeting the Irish lads :)

[@plammo1775]

Spoken by someone who’s never played a big game before and never had to get in that mindset.

[@Niall94]

Whether they stayed on the correct side or wrong side, they were going to demolish Ireland that day. The England team of that year was brilliant and ruthless, as the 42-6 score line demonstrated that Sunday afternoon! O’Driscoll was in his infancy as Ireland Captain and Johnson exploited that, not sure he would have tried that if Keith Wood was playing and captaining Ireland that day !!

[@patmctiernan6253]

Complete bullsh1t total disrespect to our lady president and a complete lack of any kind of respect we should have stayed off the pitch until they moved or forfeit the game.

[@rilfinspa8844]

😭😭

[@BrianBadonde299]

😭😭

[@mrshickadance2328]

Lol

[@jordieg-us4ee]

Yeah he's a cheat, Hand of Back

[@stevenbissett]

Great back handed compliment

[@jordieg-us4ee]

@@stevenbissett 🤣👏

[@leopard708]

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