Before being introduced to mary mcaleese england captain martin johnson refused to move his players from the left hand side of the pitch where the irish side.
Martin johnson ireland carpet.
By martin samuel sport for the daily mail updated.
Martin johnson tells us his side of the 2003 red carpet controversy against ireland.
Irish rugby s governing body has apologised to the republic s president after she was forced to walk on the grass instead of the traditional red carpet at sunday s grand slam decider.
Not that she seemed overly bothered at.
Ireland england games are generally tense feisty affairs at the best of times but when a grand slam is.
England give martin johnson the red carpet treatment the england team manager caused a fuss and sealed a slam in dublin eight years ago.
It was amazing clive woodward on martin johnson s irish red carpet faux pas the then england captain annoyed many irish fans by seemingly causing president mary mcaleese to walk on the grass.
07 15 edt 19 march 2011.
Clive woodward reveals real reason for martin johnson red carpet incident.
Newstalk 16 35 15 mar 2018.
The story former england captain martin johnson was referring to at our national concert hall roadshow in association with heineken rugby club dates back to 2003.
The day martin johnson pulled the carpet from under the irish at lansdowne road.