Abuse of Eddie Jones may prove blessing in disguise for rugby | Robert Kitson

We should wonder whether some of the jingoistic sentiment expressed before the Calcutta Cup fixture contributed to Sunday’s ‘disgusting’ treatment of the England coachSocial media, when Eddie Jones started coaching in the 1990s, meant a post-match beer with the bloke from the Sydney Morning Herald. Twitter was something that galahs did in the morning and when he graduated in 2001 to the position of Wallaby head coach precisely no one asked for a selfie. Phones were for talking to people, not pointing at celebrities.Fast forward to 2018 and the grim video snapshot of modern British life filmed …