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RFU 'to make statement on New Zealand tour'

25/06/2008

The Rugby Football Union is expected to make a statement later today regarding the alleged sex scandal involving four England rugby players.

A spokesman for the governing body has told inthenews.co.uk that a scheduled management board meeting will take place at RFU headquarters, at which it is expected that the events of the New Zealand tour will be discussed.

The meeting will be chaired by RFU chief executive Francis Baron and is also expected to include stand-in team manager Rob Andrew, who was in charge of the two-Test tour.

It was revealed last week that four members of the England touring party had been involved in an alleged incident in a room at the Hilton hotel in Auckland following the first Test defeat to the All Blacks on the night of Saturday June 14th.

The identity of the four players is yet to be officially confirmed, but one British tabloid newspaper named them yesterday as Danny Care, Topsy Ojo, Mike Brown and David Strettle.