The pair have criticised each other in the media since Andrew was preferred for the elite rugby director's job in 2006 but the former Newcastle director of rugby described his relationship with Woodward as "fine".

BBC: Rob Andrew becomes RFU director of rugby operations

The label in question was one he disliked so much that he preferred to put it between quotation marks (as if handling it with a pair of tweezers) and to insert a hyphen (as if to deny it the dignity of being a real word).

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