Sometimes quotes can be added to and bits taken out of context. The 1998 Five Nations Championship was the sixty-ninth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Ten matches were played over five weekends from 7 February to 5 April. They don’t trust us and we don’t understand them,” the Rugby Football Union’s then secretary Dudley Wood once said.Whatever, this is the story of Dallaglio’s reported barb, more than two decades on...Wales had started so well in the Five Nations encounter they’d probably surprised themselves, with Allan Bateman scoring two tries, one of them an absolute gem, prompting comparisons with the 1970s.But nostalgia freaks were soon to be awakened from their reveries.Ahead 12-6 after close on half-an-hour’s play, Wales went on to concede 21 points in seven minutes.“All I can remember is Allan Bateman scoring twice and the match turning,” said the visitors’ hooker that day, Barry Williams.“England had a penalty and instead of going for goal, they went for touch and drove the line-out for a try.“We conceded a load of points before half-time and everything that could go wrong did go wrong.“Had England gone for goal from that penalty and kicked it, it would have been 12-9 to us.“Instead, in the blink of an eye the score went up to 27-12 to them and they didn’t look back.”Wales were dreadful, with England scoring eight tries, one of which saw Austin Healey race clear down the left touchline with Neil Jenkins running alongside him, with one writer cruelly saying it appeared as Church Village’s finest was escorting him to the line.Jenkins was played out of position at full-back and hated every minute of it.A fine player, he never started a match there again, reverting to his favoured spot of fly-half.Countless other Wales players had days to forget. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the hundred-and-fourth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Match Statistics 1998 (21 February) Previous Match | Next Match . Welcome to the site, and thanks for visiting. Welcome to the site, and thanks for visiting. Just wanted to apologise for the try yesterday.”Lawrence Dallaglio breaks through the Welsh defenceScott Gibbs scoring the famous try against England at Wembley. I might have been in the shower at the time.”Gareth Llewellyn, who featured at second row for Wales that day, remembers Dallaglio as being a different bloke off the pitch as he was on it: “When you played against him, he was stone-faced and snarling, someone who was desperate to do well for England.“He’d talk to everyone and was as genuine as could be.“If he said those things after the game back then, it would have surprised me.”Rob Appleyard was making his Five Nations debut when he came on as a replacement in 1998. This video contains content from Six Nations Rugby, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. ... England v Wales Rugby Union Feb 1998 TJS Sports. England had scored more tries in one afternoon than Wales had conceded against them throughout the entire 1970s.There was further indignity to come that evening in 1998 for a group of Welsh supporters who went to a Chinese restaurant in Twickenham. A text request for a chat also drew a blank.Gareth Thomas wrote in his book, Alfie: “There have been stories of how Lawrence Dallaglio supposedly came banging on the door of our changing room afterwards shouting: ‘You’ve been dicked, you’ve been dicked’. Wales Rugby Team The Wales v England game that ended with an English star taunting the Welsh dressing room and left Rob Howley fuming We … Well, if he did, I didn’t notice it, and even if I had I wouldn’t have cared less as long as I had done OK. Dallaglio, who I have since come to regard very highly as a player and a bloke, could have said what the hell he liked, and it would have gone straight over my head.”Barry Williams — he of the less-than-flattering description of Cockerill all those years ago — said: “It’s a push to remember what went on in 1998.“I can’t recall saying that about Cockerill. Head coach Kevin Bowring resigned, but the summer saw Wales fall further still, losing 96-13 to South Afica, the heaviest defeat in their history.The Welsh Rugby Union turned to Graham Henry and wasted little time dubbing him The Great Redeemer.The following April Wales beat England 32-31, a captaincy blunder by Dallaglio helping Henry’s side claim victory courtesy of a late Scott Gibbs try, converted by Neil Jenkins.Dallaglio’s phone pinged the following morning. France won it with a Grand Slam. Before you know it you look at what appears in print and think: ‘Did I say that?’“That’s not to say he didn’t do as Rob Howley says. We try to find out what really happened in the dressing room after England's infamously crushing 60-26 win over Wales in 1998It was the England-Wales game at Twickenham that ended with Lawrence Dallaglio reportedly walking past the visitors’ dressing room and blow-torching those inside with a blast of industrial language.“You’ve been di**ed!” Dallaglio is reported to have shouted.Wales had been well and truly trounced, losing 60-26 to their arch rivals. Here's Wales beat Scotland and Ireland before losing 51-0 in a home fixture against France, played at Wembley.