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Whodunnit? English rugby close to identifying World Cup mole

A team of former detectives are nearing a breakthrough as they bid to identify who leaked the World Cup reports. Dun dun dun.

THE ENGLISH RFU are reportedly on the verge of naming and shaming the mole who leaked confidential information on the country’s disastrous World Cup campaign.

The Times of London laid bare details of England’s shambolic tournament after receiving the officials reports last month.

In the article, it was claimed that some of the players were focused more on money than playing rugby and that a lack of ability to instil discipline resulted in a series of off-field controversies.

According to The Daily Telegraph, the private security firm who were hired to investigate the leak, Monitor Quest, are close to being able to reveal the source and hope to do so later this week.

It is believed that the firm, made up for former police detectives, have interviewed everyone who had access to the reports in a bid to establish a culprit.

“The investigators are on the cusp of finding who leaked the reports,” a source told.

“There is a lot of pressure to find out who was responsible for doing it as it will clear the names of all the other people who had access to them.

“The England players  in particular are furious that their comments, which they felt they had given anonymously, have been made public in this way.”

The aftermath of the fallout has seen the RFU forced into appointing a new chief executive and head coach after Martyn Thomas and Martin Johnson recently resigned from their respective positions.

Stephen Brown will fill the role left empty by Thomas on a temporary basis while it has been decided that an interim coach is to be brought in for the Six Nations tournament in the New Year.

Former South Africa coach Nick Mallett and New Zealand’s World Cup winning assistant coach Wayne Smith are the latest names to be touted.

Over the weekend, Nick Easter hinted that he might have been the player that made the now infamous ‘There’s £35,000 down the toilet’ in the wake of the quarter-final defeat to France.

The Harlequins veteran claimed that he didn’t remember making the remark, but if he did, it was almost certainly ‘intended as an ironic reflection on the solemnity of the occasion’.

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