Mick Cleary, of the Daily Telegraph, reflects on Mike Tindall's huge fine.
"It would appear that there is no way back for Mike Tindall. The sanction handed down on Friday by the Rugby Football Union was brutal.
The England centre was smacked as hard as he has ever been, stripped not only of his shirt but of his reputation and dignity. The image of Tindall as an unreconstructed Rugby World Cup tour-wrecker, letting down his mates and manager, will not be easily repaired.
Yet as he surveys the bleak landscape, thinking that he will forever be branded as the man who besmirched England’s campaign in New Zealand, Tindall might care to think back to another 2003 World Cup hero and wonder how it is that Lawrence Dallaglio is still toasted the length and breadth of the land. And rightly so."
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