The BBC kicked a promotional trailer for its Six Nations rugby union coverage in 2012 into touch over fears that it was anti-English.
The on-air marketing campaign features fans being asked which team they most wanted to beat. Perhaps unsurprisingly, fans from Scotland, Wales and Ireland all chose England.
The trailer was re-edited before it was shown in the run-up to the tournament, but subsequently leaked online.
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Nigel Owens ranks the three worst Six Nations stars to referee
#1. Joe Marler (England)
Owens said: “He was always a funny one on the field in nice way. You’d be trying to tell him something serious and he’d just want to have a laugh and a joke. He’d wink at you on the middle of a serious telling off.”
