• Toulon No8 distress by opposition to picking French-based players[br]• ‘To hear them say we’d be a distraction if selected was insulting’[br]Steffon Armitage says he is insulted by suggestions he or Nick Abendanon would bear been a distraction if selected in England’s World Cup squad,with both France-based absentees highly critical of those players who argued otherwise.
Armitage, the Toulon back-row, and Abendanon,the Clermont Auvergne full-back, were omitted from Stuart Lancaster’s squad for England’s ill-fated campaign because the Rugby Football Union does not allow foreign-based players to be selected for international duty.
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Source: theguardian.com