Joe Marler is facing a season-ending ban for grabbing the genitals of Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones - and may even not play for England again.
The Harlequins prop has been ordered to appear before Six Nations disciplinary chiefs in Dublin on Thursday to answer a charge that he contravened rugby’s spirit of good sportsmanship.
England team mates Manu Tuilagi and Courtney Lawes will join him in the dock for ‘no-arms’ hits to the head of opponents in the same game.
Tuilagi was sent-off, Lawes went unpunished. And there could be further trouble brewing for England after organisers confirmed there is no deadline for them to rule on whether Eddie Jones warrants a misconduct charge for suggesting ref Ben O’Keefe was guilty of bias against his team.
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