England’s Kyle Sinckler promises to keep his cool in white-hot Cardiff

The prop insists he is not the only player who should take the blame for the French furore

Kyle Sinckler is adamant he does not have an anger problem. So adamant that he seems a bit angry about it. Take England’s last match against France. In the second half, Sinckler snapped and slapped the flanker Arthur Iturria on the top of his head. “There’s no need to do it, is there?” the referee, Nigel Owens, told Sinckler after he had given a penalty against him.

A week later, Sinckler says he is still feeling “a bit frustrated about the whole incident”. Owens did not see that Iturria had taken a cheap shot at Sinckler first. “I didn’t just smack him on the head,” Sinckler says. “There was stuff that happened before, but I don’t want to dwell on it.”

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2TVb2r6