Sir Clive Woodward is poised to lead the Great Britain team to the Winter Youth Olympic Games
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The Independent on Sunday's Alan Hubbard talks to Sir Clive Woodward who reveals he would have taken a different approach to former England coach Martin Johnson.
"I ask him if he would have done things differently. "Yes, I like to think I would," he says. "But it's easy to view things from the stands.
"I never had to experience the sort of things that went on there in my years in charge. We were very, very big on discipline, how we operated both on and off the field. It's not just the obvious areas of drinking and partying, it's all sorts of things.
"I would have sat down with them as individuals and then as a team, looked them straight in the eye and said, 'How do you want to be remembered?' I know how I want to be remembered, and that's for being on the back pages rather than the front pages.
"I can think of nothing worse than being remembered for doing something inappropriate that would affect the performance of a team-mate or another athlete. It will be with you for the rest of your life."
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