New prop on the Leinster block, Mike Ross, thanks disgraced former Harlequins boss Dean Richards for saving career, he talks to David Kelly in the Irish Independent.
"It's been a strange 2009 for Mike Ross. He arrived back on Irish soil this summer, joining Leinster on the back of winning his first international cap against Canada, and with the promise of much more to come from the home of the new Heineken Cup champions.
"The club he left, Harlequins, would soon become embroiled in the tawdry saga that was 'bloodgate,' a cheating escapade which, ironically, could easily have upended his new employers' European dreams. And yet, as he watched his former team-mates' travails accelerate into further farce, he thought of Dean Richards, the now disgraced former head coach of Harlequins, and knew that there was a different figure behind the publicly caricatured "ex-bobby gone bent."
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