Owen Farrell will discover whether he is to be banned for England’s entire World Cup pool stage on Tuesday, after he was sent off against Wales on Saturday for a high tackle.
The England captain hit Welsh flanker Taine Basham in the chin and was shown a yellow card by referee Nika Amashukeli, which was upgraded to red on review via the new bunker system.
Farrell is facing a six-match ban, before any mitigating factors are considered. If he is unable to convince an all-Australian disciplinary panel to remove weeks from his suspension at his hearing on Tuesday, he will miss England’s remaining two warm-up matches against Ireland and Fiji, and the World Cup pool games against Argentina, Japan, Samoa and Chile.
George Ford
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