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It’s high time Johnson was spectator at Kingston Park
May 16 2010 by Neil Farrington, Sunday Sun
IMAGINE if Fabio Capello had struggled to make an appearance at each and every Premier League ground in his first two years as England coach.
I very much doubt he would still be England coach.
So how come Capello’s rugby counterpart can get away with being a relative stranger to Kingston Park, Newcastle?
Martin Johnson may have some trusted spies – no more so than former Newcastle coach John Fletcher – keeping tabs on up and coming Falcons, but what prevents him from gauging their form and fitness at first hand with the slightest regularity?
I wondered that after reading that Tim Swinson, probably Newcastle’s player of the season, had failed to win an England Saxons call-up for next month’s Churchill Cup, let alone a place in the England squad proper for the summer tour of Australia and New Zealand.
Not that I would say as much to Johnson’s face, of course. If only because I doubt he’d find his way to Consett.
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