My Battles with O'driscoll ; the Lions Captain Grabbed My Hair and Tried to Gouge My Eye Out On the Daywaleswon the Grand Slam

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WHEN Gavin Henson toured New Zealand with the British and Irish Lions last summer, he was reunited with Brian O'Driscoll, the Irishman chosen by Sir Clive Woodward as the tourists' captain. The two rivals got on well but now, in a sensational new book, serialised exclusively in The Mail on Sunday, Henson reveals that the last time they faced each other on a rugby pitch O'Driscoll launched an extraordinary attack on him AFTER we had beaten Scotland in the Six Nations last March, we had five days left to get things right before we met Ireland in Cardiff for the Grand Slam. That was enough.

Any more would definitely have sent us all completely nuts.

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My Battles with O'driscoll ; the Lions Captain Grabbed My Hair and Tried to Gouge My Eye Out On the Daywaleswon the Grand Slam

Everywhere we went in those five days, everyone we bumped into at the Wales squad's hotel and around our training base, anyone who had an excuse to come up and talk...it was all about the game.

However much I tried to ignore the newspapers and not listen to the radio or watch TV, two facts became unavoidable: Wales had not won a Grand Slam for 27 years and...

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