Rugby Football Union chief Francis Barron made a big play of launching an inquiry into "unauthorised briefings" of the media as he unveiled Martin Johnson to the press on Friday.
He said it to ward off inevitable criticism in the wake of the catastrophic way the recruitment process was handled.
After all, the press had been kept far better informed about Brian Ashton's job than the man himself had.
The culprits were all members of the RFU management board. Yet one prominent member didn't seem too worried when I spoke to him.
"This was just part of the firefighting process," he told Undercover Sport.
"There would be nothing to be gained from this kind of investigation and I'm confident that nothing else will happen."
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
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