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Ahead of the final midweek game, Fitzgerald received a rude awakening from roommate Powell in the early hours of the morning.
“Great fun. He was the life and soul of the party. He was a great part of the tour even though he didn’t play in the tests,” Fitzgerald said on The Irish Independent’s The Left Wing podcast.
“I had a big match ahead of the tests and I get woken up at about 4am. He knew he was out of the running. Lights go on, I ask him to turn off the lights because I was trying to sleep,” he continued.
“In the morning I look up and there was a pizza on the ceiling. There was a pizza on the ceiling! I turn over and this was a period where some of the Welsh guys had been doing the fake tan stuff. This guy is huge, he is an unbelievable athlete. I turn over and there was his big, bare orange arse!
“I see the pizza and the big arse and I go into the toilet to brush my teeth. I take a step out of bed and I crunch down on crisps. They led all the way from the toilet to the side of my bed.
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“He is one of those guys who you couldn’t be mad at but I just said ‘listen Powelly, I’m going to ask if I can move, we are on different schedules’.”
Powell’s antics have been well documented over the years. The back-rower was most notably arrested in 2010 after allegedly taking a golf cart from the Welsh team hotel and driving it towards a motorway after Wales’ victory over Scotland in the Six Nations.
